Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

- Morrison, Van

Best Quotes about Music

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Dan Rather

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Lynn, Loretta

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Oscar Wilde

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

11.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

12.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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

Lennon, John

16.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

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

Luther, Martin

19.

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

Rattle, Simon

20.

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

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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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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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

25.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

George Santayana

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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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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

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Green, Benny

33.

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

34.

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

Ed Gardner

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

46.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill