Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Sir Thomas Beecham

Best Quotes about Music

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Woody Allen

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

11.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Armstrong, Louis

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Plutarch

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Luther, Martin

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

28.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

31.

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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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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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

34.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Addison, Joseph

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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Green, Benny

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard