Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Music

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Martin Luther

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

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Miller, Henry

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Huneker, James G.

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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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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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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gore, Tipper

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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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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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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

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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