Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

Best Quotes about Music

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Huxley, Aldous

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

11.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

12.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

13.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

14.

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

Wilde, Oscar

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

Ed Gardner

17.

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)

18.

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

19.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

20.

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

Miller, Henry

21.

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

22.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Szell, George

26.

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

27.

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

28.

I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

29.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

30.

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

31.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

32.

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

33.

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

Billings, Josh

34.

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

Dietz, Howard

35.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

36.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

37.

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

38.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

39.

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

Oscar Wilde

40.

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

Hugo, Victor

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

44.

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

45.

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

46.

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

Wilson, Colin

47.

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

Luther, Martin

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.