Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Pepys, Samuel

Best Quotes about Music

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Johnson, Samuel

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Schnabel, Artur

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

Plato

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Green, Benny

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

Gore, Tipper

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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 can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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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

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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

Franklin, Aretha

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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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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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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