Motivational Quotes

Music

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

- Starr, Ringo

Best Quotes about Music

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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

George Eliot

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

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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

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

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

Huneker, James G.

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

14.

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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

16.

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

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

Franklin, Aretha

18.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

19.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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

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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

25.

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

26.

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

27.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

28.

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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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

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

32.

People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

33.

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)

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

37.

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

Lennon, John

38.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

39.

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

40.

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

41.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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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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

44.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

45.

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

Lynn, Loretta

46.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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