Motivational Quotes

Music

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Music

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

Attali, Jacques

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

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

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Billings, Josh

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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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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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Johnson, Samuel

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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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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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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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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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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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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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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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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

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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

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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'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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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