Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Music

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

Dietz, Howard

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Wilson, Colin

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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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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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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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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[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

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Miller, Henry

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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Pavarotti, Luciano