Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Music

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

Brown, James

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

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

10.

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

11.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

12.

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

13.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

14.

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

15.

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

Wilson, Colin

16.

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

17.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

18.

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

24.

I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

25.

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

26.

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

27.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

28.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

29.

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

30.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

31.

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

Aldous Huxley

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

35.

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

36.

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

Franklin, Aretha

37.

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

38.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

39.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

G. K. Chesterton

42.

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

43.

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

Luther, Martin

44.

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

45.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

46.

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

47.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

48.

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

49.

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

50.

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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