Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Music

People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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

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

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

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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

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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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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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

Wilson, Colin

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Plato

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Luther, Martin

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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

Aldous Huxley

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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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

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

Hugo, Victor

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Lennon, John