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

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

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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

William Shakespeare

13.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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

Tate, Jeffrey

19.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

20.

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

Rattle, Simon

21.

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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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

23.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

26.

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

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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

28.

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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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

30.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

31.

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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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

33.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

35.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

Franklin, Aretha

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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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

John Erskine

44.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

45.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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

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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

48.

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

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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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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas