Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Music

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

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Franklin, Aretha

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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

Gibbons, Billy

10.

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)

11.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

12.

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.

13.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

14.

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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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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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

17.

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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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

19.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

20.

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

Zappa, Frank

21.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

22.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

24.

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

25.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

26.

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

Oscar Wilde

27.

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

Winter, Arthur

28.

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

29.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

30.

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

31.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

33.

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

J. K. Rowling

34.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

36.

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

Luther, Martin

37.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

38.

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

39.

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

Plutarch

41.

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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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

43.

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

Addison, Joseph

44.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

45.

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

46.

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

47.

We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

48.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

49.

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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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas