Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

- Robert Fripp

Best Quotes about Music

1.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

2.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

3.

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

4.

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

G. K. Chesterton

5.

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

6.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

7.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

8.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

9.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

10.

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

Kin Hubbard

11.

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

12.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

13.

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

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

Huneker, James G.

16.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

17.

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

18.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

19.

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

20.

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

Davis, Miles

21.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

22.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

23.

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

24.

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

25.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

26.

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Plato

28.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

29.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

31.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

32.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Huxley, Aldous

36.

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

Luther, Martin

37.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

38.

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

39.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

40.

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

Wordsworth, William

41.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

42.

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

Cocteau, Jean

43.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

44.

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

Green, Benny

45.

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

46.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

47.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

48.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

49.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

50.

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