Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Szell, George

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Kin Hubbard

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.

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Winter, Arthur

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

Armstrong, Louis

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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Luther, Martin

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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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 fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

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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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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 way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Country music is three chords and the truth.