Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Music

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

Davis, Miles

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

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Addison, Joseph

10.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

11.

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

12.

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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

John Erskine

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

Huxley, Aldous

18.

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

Brown, James

20.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

21.

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

23.

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

24.

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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

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

27.

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

30.

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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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

32.

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

Rattle, Simon

33.

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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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

35.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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

37.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

38.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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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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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Ruskin, John

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

Luther, Martin