Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Pavarotti, Luciano

Best Quotes about Music

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 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

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

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

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Ed Gardner

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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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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

J. K. Rowling

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Huneker, James G.

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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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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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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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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

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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

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Aldous Huxley

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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