Motivational Quotes

Music

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

- Neville, Richard

Best Quotes about Music

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

J. K. Rowling

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.

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

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

George Santayana

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Woody Allen

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

Dietz, Howard

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

10.

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

11.

The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

12.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

13.

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

Szell, George

14.

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

15.

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

Gibbons, Billy

16.

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

17.

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

Mencken, H. L.

18.

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

Lynn, Loretta

19.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

21.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

22.

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

23.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

24.

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

25.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

26.

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

27.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

28.

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

29.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

31.

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

Ruskin, John

32.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

33.

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

George Eliot

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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.

36.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

40.

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

Lennon, John

41.

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

42.

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

43.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

44.

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

Kin Hubbard

45.

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

Green, Benny

46.

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

47.

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