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

1.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

2.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

3.

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

Huxley, Aldous

4.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

8.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

9.

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

Szell, George

10.

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

15.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

17.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

21.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

22.

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

23.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

24.

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

Rattle, Simon

25.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

26.

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

27.

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

Hugo, Victor

28.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

29.

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

30.

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

31.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

32.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

33.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

34.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

35.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

36.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

37.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

39.

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

G. K. Chesterton

40.

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

41.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

43.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

44.

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.