Motivational Quotes

Music

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.

Best Quotes about Music

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

Davis, Miles

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Martin Luther

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Brown, James

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.

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

Rattle, Simon

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Newman, Ernest

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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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

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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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

25.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

John Erskine

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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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.

35.

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 fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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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

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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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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

46.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!