Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

Best Quotes about Music

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

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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.

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

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

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

Woody Allen

11.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

12.

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

19.

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

Hugo, Victor

20.

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

Martin Luther

21.

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

Attali, Jacques

22.

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Plutarch

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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

25.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

27.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

28.

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, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

31.

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

Szell, George

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

Huneker, James G.

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

36.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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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

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

44.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Aldous Huxley

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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

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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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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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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)