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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Winter, Arthur

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

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

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

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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

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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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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

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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

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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.

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

Szell, George

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Sousa, John Philip

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Luther, Martin

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

Martin Luther

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

Ed Gardner

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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[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

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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

Plutarch

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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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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.