Motivational Quotes

Music

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

- Mascagni, Pietro

Best Quotes about Music

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.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Szell, George

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

Armstrong, Louis

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

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

10.

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

Miller, Henry

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

24.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Kin Hubbard

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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

31.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Huxley, Aldous

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lynn, Loretta

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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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.

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To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Newman, Ernest

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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