Motivational Quotes

Music

A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

- Newman, Ernest

Best Quotes about Music

1.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

2.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

3.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

4.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

5.

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

6.

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

Attali, Jacques

7.

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

Wilde, Oscar

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

[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

12.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

13.

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

14.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

15.

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

16.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

17.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

18.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

19.

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

20.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

21.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

22.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

23.

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

24.

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

25.

I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

26.

Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

27.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

28.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

29.

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

J. K. Rowling

30.

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

Szell, George

31.

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

George Santayana

32.

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

Miller, Henry

33.

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

Zappa, Frank

34.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

35.

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

Auden, W. H.

36.

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

37.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

38.

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.

39.

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

John Erskine

40.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

41.

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

42.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

43.

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

44.

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

45.

There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

46.

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

Dan Rather

47.

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