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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Plato

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

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

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

John Erskine

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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 can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

George Eliot

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Rattle, Simon

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.