Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Lutoslawski, Witold

Best Quotes about Music

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

Tate, Jeffrey

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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 causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huneker, James 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.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Armstrong, Louis

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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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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I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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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

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

Ed Gardner

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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy