Motivational Quotes

Music

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

- Neville, Richard

Best Quotes about Music

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Attali, Jacques

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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

Dan Rather

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

10.

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

Ed Gardner

11.

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

Miller, Henry

12.

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.

13.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

14.

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

15.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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.

17.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

18.

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

Huneker, James G.

19.

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

20.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

21.

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

Aldous Huxley

22.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Ruskin, John

27.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

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

30.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

31.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

32.

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

Lynn, Loretta

33.

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

34.

It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

35.

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

Auden, W. H.

36.

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.

37.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

38.

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

39.

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

Lennon, John

40.

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Gore, Tipper

46.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

47.

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

49.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

50.

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