Motivational Quotes

Music

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

- Packard, Vance

Best Quotes about Music

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Woody Allen

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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

11.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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

Davis, Miles

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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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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

17.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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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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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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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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, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

28.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

29.

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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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

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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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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Ed Gardner

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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

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pepys, Samuel

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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

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

Brown, James

46.

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Luther, Martin

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Pavarotti, Luciano