Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Music

I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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

Dan Rather

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

Plutarch

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Newman, Ernest

10.

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

11.

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

12.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

13.

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

14.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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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 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

18.

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

G. K. Chesterton

19.

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

20.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

21.

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

Pepys, Samuel

22.

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

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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

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

25.

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.

26.

[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

27.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

28.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

29.

People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

30.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

33.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

34.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

35.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

36.

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

40.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

41.

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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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.