Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

Best Quotes about Music

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

Wilde, Oscar

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Aldous Huxley

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

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

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

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

10.

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

11.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

12.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

13.

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

14.

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

Gibbons, Billy

15.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

17.

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

Dietz, Howard

18.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

19.

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

20.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

21.

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

Addison, Joseph

22.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Szell, George

27.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

28.

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

29.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

30.

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

31.

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

Luther, Martin

32.

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

33.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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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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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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Woody Allen

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.