Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Music

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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

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.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

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

Aldous Huxley

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Lynn, Loretta

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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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

17.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Dietz, Howard

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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 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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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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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Plutarch

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Dan Rather

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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