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

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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.

Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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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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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Winter, Arthur

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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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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

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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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

J. K. Rowling

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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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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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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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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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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