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

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Addison, Joseph

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

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

Green, Benny

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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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

Kin Hubbard

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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

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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Davis, Miles

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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Huxley, Aldous

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

27.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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

30.

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

Pepys, Samuel

32.

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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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Lennon, John

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Dietz, Howard

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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

Woody Allen

44.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van