Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Music

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

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

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

16.

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Hugo, Victor

18.

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

William Shakespeare

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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

29.

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

Lennon, John

30.

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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 is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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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 of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

43.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

49.

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

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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