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

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

11.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Huneker, James G.

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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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 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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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 beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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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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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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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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

33.

[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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

36.

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

37.

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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

39.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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

George Eliot

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max