Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

- Latham, Geoffrey

Best Quotes about Music

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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

Pepys, Samuel

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

Miller, Henry

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Dietz, Howard

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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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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Newman, Ernest

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

J. K. Rowling

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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

Lennon, John

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Ed Gardner

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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 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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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank