Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Proverb, Zimbabwe

Best Quotes about Music

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Miller, Henry

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

13.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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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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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Szell, George

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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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

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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Newman, Ernest

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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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 should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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