Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Proverb, Zimbabwe

Best Quotes about Music

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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

Gore, Tipper

12.

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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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

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Kin Hubbard

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Aldous Huxley

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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Miller, Henry

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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

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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.

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

Dietz, Howard

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Newman, Ernest