Motivational Quotes

Music

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Music

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Green, Benny

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

Davis, Miles

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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

Addison, Joseph

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 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

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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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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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

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

Attali, Jacques

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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 a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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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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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Pepys, Samuel

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Lennon, John

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

Newman, Ernest

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

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

J. K. Rowling

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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