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

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Gore, Tipper

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

J. K. Rowling

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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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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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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Kin Hubbard

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Newman, Ernest

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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

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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.

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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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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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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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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 is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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

Szell, George

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

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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.

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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 good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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.