Motivational Quotes

Music

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

- Schnabel, Artur

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Wilson, Colin

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Franklin, Aretha

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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

Hugo, Victor

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

John Erskine

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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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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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

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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 the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Addison, Joseph

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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Aldous Huxley

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

J. K. Rowling

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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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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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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Zappa, Frank