Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Music

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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

Schnabel, Artur

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

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Gore, Tipper

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Pepys, Samuel

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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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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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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Plutarch

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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 wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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

George Bernard Shaw

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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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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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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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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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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