Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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

Zappa, Frank

Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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

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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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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Addison, Joseph

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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

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Kin Hubbard

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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

Huneker, James G.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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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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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 can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.