Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Music

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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 is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Addison, Joseph

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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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 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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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Zappa, Frank

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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

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

George Eliot

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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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