Motivational Quotes

Music

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

- Starr, Ringo

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Brown, James

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

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Ed Gardner

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

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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.

10.

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Billings, Josh

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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

18.

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

Aldous Huxley

19.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Woody Allen

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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

28.

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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

32.

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

Gore, Tipper

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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

38.

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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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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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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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