Motivational Quotes

Music

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

- Kin Hubbard

Best Quotes about Music

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, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Aretha

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Brown, James

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

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Pepys, Samuel

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Plutarch

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Sousa, John Philip

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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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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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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Lynn, Loretta

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Dietz, Howard

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

41.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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

Green, Benny