Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Pierre Beaumarchais

Best Quotes about Music

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

Johnson, Samuel

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

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

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

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

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Zappa, Frank

10.

Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Plato

14.

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

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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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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

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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.

William Shakespeare

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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

19.

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

20.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

24.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

25.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

26.

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)

27.

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

Woody Allen

28.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

29.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

30.

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

Brown, James

32.

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

Ed Gardner

33.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

34.

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

35.

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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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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

39.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

41.

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

Dietz, Howard

42.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

43.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

44.

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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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

46.

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

J. K. Rowling

47.

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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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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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 is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey