Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Music

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

William Shakespeare

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

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.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Aldous Huxley

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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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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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

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

Woody Allen

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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

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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

31.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

32.

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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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Ruskin, John