Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

- Robert Fripp

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

Martin Luther

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

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

Armstrong, Louis

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Woody Allen

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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 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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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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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

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Miller, Henry

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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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Luther, Martin

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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.

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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

George Eliot

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

Schnabel, Artur

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Plato

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.