Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is the key to the female heart.

- Seume, Johann G.

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

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

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

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

William Shakespeare

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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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. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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

Schnabel, Artur

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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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[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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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

18.

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

19.

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

20.

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

21.

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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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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

Davis, Miles

25.

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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Szell, George

28.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

30.

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

George Bernard Shaw

31.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

32.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

Ed Gardner

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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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.

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

40.

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

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

45.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.