Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Pepys, Samuel

Best Quotes about Music

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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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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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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I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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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

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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

Gore, Tipper

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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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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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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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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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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

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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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

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

J. K. Rowling

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Armstrong, Louis

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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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

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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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

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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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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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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.