Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Pavarotti, Luciano

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

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

G. K. Chesterton

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Plato

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

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

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

12.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

13.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

14.

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

15.

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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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

17.

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

18.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

20.

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

Ed Gardner

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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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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

25.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

27.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

28.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

29.

[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

30.

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

Miller, Henry

31.

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

Huneker, James G.

32.

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

Pepys, Samuel

33.

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

George Bernard Shaw

34.

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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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

36.

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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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

38.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

39.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

43.

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

44.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

45.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

46.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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