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

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

William Shakespeare

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

George Bernard Shaw

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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

28.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Newman, Ernest

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Davis, Miles

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

Ed Gardner

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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

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

Winter, Arthur

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Gore, Tipper

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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