Motivational Quotes

Music

The history of a people is found in its songs.

- Jellinek, George

Best Quotes about Music

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

24.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

25.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

38.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.