Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

- Robert Fripp

Best Quotes about Music

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

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

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

Green, Benny

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

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

Huneker, James G.

12.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

13.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Lennon, John

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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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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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

Ruskin, John

18.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

19.

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

20.

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

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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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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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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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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

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

G. K. Chesterton

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

32.

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

Franklin, Aretha

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Newman, Ernest

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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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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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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.

Martin Luther

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Armstrong, Louis

42.

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

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

Pepys, Samuel

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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