Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Luther, Martin

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.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Armstrong, Louis

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

12.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ruskin, John

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Gibbons, Billy

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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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

Attali, Jacques

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

23.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Pepys, Samuel

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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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, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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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 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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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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Shakespeare, William