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

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.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Dietz, Howard

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

[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

It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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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

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

George Eliot

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

Green, Benny

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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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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

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

Gibbons, Billy

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

William Shakespeare

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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Aldous Huxley

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Auden, W. H.

37.

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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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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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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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

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

William Shakespeare

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Ed Gardner

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

Newman, Ernest

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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude