Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Rattle, Simon

Best Quotes about Music

Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

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

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

Hugo, Victor

Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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 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.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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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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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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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 only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Aldous Huxley

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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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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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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Miller, Henry

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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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.