Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Wordsworth, William

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

William Shakespeare

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Newman, Ernest

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in 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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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

28.

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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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Johnson, Samuel

32.

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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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

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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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

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

Cocteau, Jean

44.

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

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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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