Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

- Robert Fripp

Best Quotes about Music

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

Woody Allen

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Cocteau, Jean

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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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 like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Addison, Joseph

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Armstrong, Louis

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Wilde, Oscar

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Plutarch

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Ruskin, John

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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca