Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Pavarotti, Luciano

Best Quotes about Music

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

Franklin, Aretha

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

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

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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

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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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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

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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Huneker, James G.

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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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

Kin Hubbard

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

William Shakespeare

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.