Motivational Quotes

Music

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Music

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

[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

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Attali, Jacques

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Addison, Joseph

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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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

Franklin, Aretha

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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

Plutarch

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

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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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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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Hugo, Victor

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Dietz, Howard

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.