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

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

Miller, Henry

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

William Shakespeare

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Armstrong, Louis

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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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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Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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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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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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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 are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Davis, Miles

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan