Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Music

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

George Eliot

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

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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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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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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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Wilson, Colin

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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 man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Luther, Martin

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

William Shakespeare

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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

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

J. K. Rowling

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare