Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

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

Ed Gardner

11.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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

14.

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

15.

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

William Shakespeare

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Luther, Martin

19.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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 is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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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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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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

25.

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

26.

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

27.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

28.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

31.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

32.

Pound, Ezra

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

George Eliot

42.

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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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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Plato

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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.

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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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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

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence