Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

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

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Ruskin, John

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

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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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

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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 pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Wilson, Colin

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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Davis, Miles

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

William Shakespeare

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

Dietz, Howard

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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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Schumann, Robert

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Miller, Henry

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Pepys, Samuel