Motivational Quotes

Music

Music should never be harmless.

- Robertson, Robbie

Best Quotes about Music

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

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

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

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

Davis, Miles

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

Martin Luther

The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Plutarch

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Franklin, Aretha

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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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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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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

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

Aldous Huxley

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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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

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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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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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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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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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van