Motivational Quotes

Music

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

- Stevens, Wallace

Best Quotes about Music

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Davis, Miles

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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

Huneker, James G.

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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

Huxley, Aldous

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Dan Rather

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

J. K. Rowling

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Mencken, H. L.

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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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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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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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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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 like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Addison, Joseph

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Kin Hubbard

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.