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

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

George Eliot

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Attali, Jacques

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Aldous Huxley

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

John Erskine

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

William Shakespeare

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

George Santayana

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Franklin, Aretha

22.

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

Lennon, John

23.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Ruskin, John

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

37.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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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

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

Dietz, Howard

42.

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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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

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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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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

Gibbons, Billy

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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.