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

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

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Wilde, Oscar

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Winter, Arthur

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

J. K. Rowling

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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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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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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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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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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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Carlyle, Thomas