Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

- Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

William Shakespeare

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

George Eliot

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Plutarch

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Szell, George

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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Newman, Ernest

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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 is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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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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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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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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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

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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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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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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Hugo, Victor

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Luther, Martin

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot