Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Pavarotti, Luciano

Best Quotes about Music

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

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Pepys, Samuel

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Brown, James

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

13.

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

Billings, Josh

14.

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

15.

We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

16.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

17.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

18.

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

19.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

20.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

21.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

22.

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

23.

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

Luther, Martin

24.

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

25.

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

G. K. Chesterton

26.

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

27.

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

28.

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

29.

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

Aldous Huxley

30.

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

Wordsworth, William

31.

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

Lynn, Loretta

32.

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

33.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

34.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

35.

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

36.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

38.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

39.

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

40.

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

Szell, George

41.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

42.

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

43.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

44.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

45.

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

46.

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

47.

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

48.

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

49.

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

50.

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

Winter, Arthur