Motivational Quotes

Music

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

- Packard, Vance

Best Quotes about Music

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

Addison, Joseph

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

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Aldous Huxley

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Billings, Josh

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

Gibbons, Billy

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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.

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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

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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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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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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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 when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Green, Benny

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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.

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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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.

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

Plato

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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare