Motivational Quotes

Music

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Music

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Hugo, Victor

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

12.

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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.

William Shakespeare

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Dietz, Howard

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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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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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

Luther, Martin

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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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