Motivational Quotes

Music

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

- Stravinsky, Igor

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

William Shakespeare

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Brown, James

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

There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, James

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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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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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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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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

Addison, Joseph

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Attali, Jacques

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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 is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Plato

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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

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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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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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.