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

Winter, Arthur

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

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

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

William Shakespeare

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

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

Aldous Huxley

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Huneker, James G.

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Plutarch

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Franklin, Aretha

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Wilson, Colin

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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.

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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

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Mencken, H. L.

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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.