Motivational Quotes

Music

Music should never be harmless.

- Robertson, Robbie

Best Quotes about Music

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

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Miller, Henry

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

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

Gibbons, Billy

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

10.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Davis, Miles

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

13.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

14.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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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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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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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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

23.

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

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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

Kin Hubbard

26.

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

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

Aldous Huxley

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

George Santayana

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

Szell, George

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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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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

35.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Plato

38.

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Green, Benny

42.

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

Mencken, H. L.

43.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

44.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

48.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

49.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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