Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Aldous Huxley

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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

William Shakespeare

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

George Santayana

10.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

11.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

12.

When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

13.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

14.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

15.

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

16.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

17.

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

18.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

19.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

20.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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

22.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

23.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

24.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

25.

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

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

Huneker, James G.

28.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

32.

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

34.

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

Ruskin, John

35.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

36.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

37.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

38.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

39.

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

40.

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

41.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

44.

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

Dietz, Howard

45.

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

46.

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

Attali, Jacques

47.

Steiner, George

48.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

49.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

50.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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