Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is the key to the female heart.

- Seume, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Music

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Armstrong, Louis

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.

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

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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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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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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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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Pepys, Samuel

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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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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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

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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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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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

Lynn, Loretta

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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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

Mencken, H. L.

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

40.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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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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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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel