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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

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

Addison, Joseph

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

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

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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 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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

George Bernard Shaw

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Ed Gardner

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I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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

Huneker, James G.

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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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

Plato

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Green, Benny

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

Carlyle, 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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.