Motivational Quotes

Music

I hate music, especially when it's played.

- Jimmy Durante

Best Quotes about Music

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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

Brown, James

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Franklin, Aretha

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

31.

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

J. K. Rowling

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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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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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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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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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

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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage