Motivational Quotes

Music

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

- Sir Thomas Beecham

Best Quotes about Music

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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

Tate, Jeffrey

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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 is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

12.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Davis, Miles

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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

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

Armstrong, Louis

18.

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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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

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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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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

25.

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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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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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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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Plutarch

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

32.

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

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

35.

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

Gibbons, Billy

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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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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

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

41.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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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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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

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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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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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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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