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

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Ruskin, John

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

Oscar Wilde

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.

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

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

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Mencken, H. L.

15.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

17.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

18.

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

Cocteau, Jean

19.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Newman, Ernest

27.

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

Winter, Arthur

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

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, James

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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

33.

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

34.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

35.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Zappa, Frank

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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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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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

47.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Hugo, Victor