Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Kin Hubbard

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Pepys, Samuel

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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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 can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, 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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Addison, Joseph

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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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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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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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

Newman, Ernest

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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Ruskin, John

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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

George Santayana

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy