Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Pepys, Samuel

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

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

The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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

Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Newman, Ernest

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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Johnson, Samuel

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

William Shakespeare

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Plato

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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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 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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

Green, Benny

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Huneker, James G.

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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

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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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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

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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