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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Hugo, Victor

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Luther, Martin

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You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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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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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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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

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

Miller, Henry

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

William Shakespeare

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

Armstrong, Louis

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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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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Plutarch

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

Ruskin, John

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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

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

Aldous Huxley

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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