Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Woody Allen

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

William Shakespeare

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You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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

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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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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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Davis, Miles

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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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

Attali, Jacques

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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

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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

Ed Gardner

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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

41.

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 and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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.