Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Plutarch

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

Mencken, H. L.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Dietz, Howard

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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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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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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

George Bernard Shaw

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Gibbons, Billy

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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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

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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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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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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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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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.