Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Lynn, Loretta

Best Quotes about Music

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Rattle, Simon

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

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

10.

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

11.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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.

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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

18.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Schnabel, Artur

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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

22.

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Kin Hubbard

24.

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

25.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Miller, Henry

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

Armstrong, Louis

38.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

39.

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

J. K. Rowling

40.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Martin Luther

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Hugo, Victor

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie