Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Music

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Lennon, John

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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

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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

Johnson, Samuel

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

23.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mencken, H. L.

30.

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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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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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

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[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

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Auden, W. H.

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kin Hubbard

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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

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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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