Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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

William Shakespeare

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Woody Allen

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

Green, Benny

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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

11.

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

Lennon, John

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Winter, Arthur

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Dietz, Howard

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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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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

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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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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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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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

Luther, Martin

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Huneker, James G.