Motivational Quotes

Music

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

- Mascagni, Pietro

Best Quotes about Music

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

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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

Billings, Josh

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Ed Gardner

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

Kin Hubbard

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Davis, Miles

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

G. K. Chesterton

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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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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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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

Gore, Tipper

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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