Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

Best Quotes about Music

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

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

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

[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

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Billings, Josh

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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 good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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

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

Lennon, John

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

Addison, Joseph

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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

Franklin, Aretha