Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Music

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

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

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

Franklin, Aretha

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Woody Allen

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

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

J. K. Rowling

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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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 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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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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 should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Cocteau, Jean

37.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Kin Hubbard

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

John Erskine

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey