Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Music

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Auden, W. H.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

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

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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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

11.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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 should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

J. K. Rowling

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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Ed Gardner

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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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

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Woody Allen

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare