Motivational Quotes

Music

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Music

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.

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

Newman, Ernest

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

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

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

Addison, Joseph

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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

Winter, Arthur

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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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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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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 is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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 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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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Plutarch

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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

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

Armstrong, Louis

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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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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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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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