Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Pepys, Samuel

Best Quotes about Music

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Green, Benny

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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 the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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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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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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Attali, Jacques

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

31.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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

William Shakespeare

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Plutarch

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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

Dietz, Howard

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro