Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Music

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

[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

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

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

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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

Gibbons, Billy

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Armstrong, Louis

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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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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Lennon, John

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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

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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

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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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

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Rattle, Simon

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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

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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

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

Plutarch

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.