Motivational Quotes

Music

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

- Joel, Billy

Best Quotes about Music

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

Plutarch

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

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Ed Gardner

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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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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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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

John Erskine

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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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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Franklin, Aretha

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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Dietz, Howard

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland