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

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

Dan Rather

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

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

Brown, James

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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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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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.

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

Aldous Huxley

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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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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 a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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

Hugo, Victor

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

19.

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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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 think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Billings, Josh

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

31.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Gore, Tipper

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

Szell, George

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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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