Motivational Quotes

Music

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

- Whiteman, Paul

Best Quotes about Music

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Winter, Arthur

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Schnabel, Artur

10.

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

11.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

12.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Aldous Huxley

14.

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

Dietz, Howard

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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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

19.

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

20.

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.

Pound, Ezra

21.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

22.

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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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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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

25.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

31.

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

Huneker, James G.

33.

The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

34.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

35.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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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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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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 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

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

Dan Rather

41.

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

John Erskine

42.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Sir Thomas Beecham