Motivational Quotes

Music

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

- Packard, Vance

Best Quotes about Music

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Davis, Miles

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

Addison, Joseph

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

16.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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

J. K. Rowling

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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

Lennon, John

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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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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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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Plutarch

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

Zappa, Frank

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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