Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Sir Thomas Beecham

Best Quotes about Music

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

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

Lennon, John

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Sousa, John Philip

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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Huneker, James G.

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Green, Benny

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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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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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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