Motivational Quotes

Music

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

- Neville, Richard

Best Quotes about Music

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

Gore, Tipper

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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.

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

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

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

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

George Eliot

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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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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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[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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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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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

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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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To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Lennon, John

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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.

William Shakespeare

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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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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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Green, Benny

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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

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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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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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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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dan Rather

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hugo, Victor