Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Tate, Jeffrey

Best Quotes about Music

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

Cocteau, Jean

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

G. K. Chesterton

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

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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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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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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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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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'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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Miller, Henry

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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. 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, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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

Franklin, Aretha

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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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)

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I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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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

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

41.

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

Plato

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

J. K. Rowling

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Billings, Josh

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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean