Motivational Quotes

Music

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

- Packard, Vance

Best Quotes about Music

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

Oscar Wilde

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

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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

[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

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

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

Pepys, Samuel

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

10.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

11.

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

Plutarch

12.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Ruskin, John

14.

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

J. K. Rowling

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

18.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

19.

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

Sousa, John Philip

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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 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

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

25.

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

Plato

26.

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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

33.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

34.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Lennon, John

36.

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

Armstrong, Louis

37.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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

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

Ed Gardner

42.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

43.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Woody Allen

46.

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

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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

49.

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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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