Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Brown, James

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Winter, Arthur

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

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

10.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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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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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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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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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

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Luther, Martin

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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 shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.

Homer

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.