Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Music

1.

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

2.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

3.

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

4.

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

Martin Luther

5.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

6.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

7.

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.

8.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

9.

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.

10.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

11.

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

Newman, Ernest

12.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

13.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

17.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

George Bernard Shaw

20.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

21.

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

22.

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

Attali, Jacques

23.

Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

24.

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

Kin Hubbard

25.

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

George Eliot

26.

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

32.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

33.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

35.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

36.

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

37.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

38.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

39.

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

40.

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

Franklin, Aretha

41.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

42.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

43.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

44.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

45.

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

46.

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

Gibbons, Billy

47.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

48.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

49.

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