Motivational Quotes

Music

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

- Starr, Ringo

Best Quotes about Music

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

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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.

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

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 effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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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 hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Schnabel, Artur

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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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

Aldous Huxley

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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

32.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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 when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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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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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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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.