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 the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Zappa, Frank

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Franklin, Aretha

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, James

11.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Gibbons, Billy

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

21.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Luther, Martin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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.

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

Wilde, Oscar

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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Huxley, Aldous

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

G. K. Chesterton

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Woody Allen

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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 musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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.