Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Sousa, John Philip

Best Quotes about Music

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

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

Luther, Martin

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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

Lennon, John

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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 the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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 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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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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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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.