Motivational Quotes

Music

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Music

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

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

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

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

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Wilson, Colin

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Miller, Henry

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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 mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

31.

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Plutarch

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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

Dietz, Howard

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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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Music is the key to the female heart.