Motivational Quotes

Music

Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Tate, Jeffrey

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

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.

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

Gore, Tipper

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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

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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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

J. K. Rowling

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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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 is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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

Green, Benny

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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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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Miller, Henry

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Aldous Huxley

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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