Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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 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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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, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

21.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

William Shakespeare

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

Szell, George

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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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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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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 wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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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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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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

Miller, Henry

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Franklin, Aretha

41.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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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

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Huneker, James G.

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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.