Motivational Quotes

Music

Music should never be harmless.

- Robertson, Robbie

Best Quotes about Music

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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

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

Green, Benny

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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Plutarch

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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

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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

20.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Davis, Miles

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Miller, Henry

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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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

Dietz, Howard

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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 the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

35.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Billings, Josh

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.