Motivational Quotes

Music

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

- Packard, Vance

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Auden, W. H.

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

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

J. K. Rowling

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Oscar Wilde

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Billings, Josh

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Newman, Ernest

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

William Shakespeare

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Armstrong, Louis

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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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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael