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

William Shakespeare

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

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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

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

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

Winter, Arthur

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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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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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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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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Miller, Henry

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

Schnabel, Artur

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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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 key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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 was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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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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 good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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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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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.