Motivational Quotes

Music

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

- Packard, Vance

Best Quotes about Music

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

G. K. Chesterton

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

[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

I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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

Miller, Henry

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aldous Huxley

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

14.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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

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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Huneker, James G.

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

24.

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

Lennon, John

25.

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

26.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Lynn, Loretta

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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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

Luther, Martin

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

Woody Allen

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

43.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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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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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van