Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Rattle, Simon

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

John Erskine

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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

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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 only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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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

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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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 wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Franklin, Aretha

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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

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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

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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