Motivational Quotes

Music

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

- Starr, Ringo

Best Quotes about Music

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

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

Schnabel, Artur

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Gore, Tipper

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

10.

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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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

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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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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

16.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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.

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

22.

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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Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

25.

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Lennon, John

30.

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

Wordsworth, William

31.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

32.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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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 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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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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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.

39.

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

William Shakespeare

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To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.