Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Music

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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

Oscar Wilde

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Luther, Martin

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

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

10.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

11.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

12.

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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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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 is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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 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

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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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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

25.

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 new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

28.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Ed Gardner

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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.