Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Music

1.

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

George Bernard Shaw

2.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

3.

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

Mencken, H. L.

4.

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

5.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

6.

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

7.

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

8.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

9.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

10.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

11.

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

12.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

13.

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

George Santayana

14.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

15.

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

19.

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

Newman, Ernest

20.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

21.

I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

22.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

23.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

24.

[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

25.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

26.

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

Lennon, John

27.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

28.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

29.

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

30.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

31.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

33.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

34.

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.

35.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

36.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

37.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

40.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

41.

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

42.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

43.

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

44.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

45.

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

Miller, Henry

46.

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

47.

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