Motivational Quotes

Music

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Music

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

10.

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

Attali, Jacques

11.

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

12.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

13.

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

14.

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

Oscar Wilde

15.

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

16.

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

Sousa, John Philip

17.

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

Wilson, Colin

18.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

19.

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

Dietz, Howard

20.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

21.

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

22.

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

Wordsworth, William

23.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

24.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

25.

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

Auden, W. H.

26.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

27.

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

28.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

30.

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

31.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

32.

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.

33.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

34.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

35.

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

Huneker, James G.

36.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

38.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

39.

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

40.

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

Aldous Huxley

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Johnson, Samuel

44.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

45.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

46.

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

47.

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

48.

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

49.

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

50.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John