Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is the key to the female heart.

- Seume, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Music

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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

Davis, Miles

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

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

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

Armstrong, Louis

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Dietz, Howard

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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 music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

18.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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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 was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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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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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

46.

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

Miller, Henry

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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