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

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

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Huxley, Aldous

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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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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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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

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Szell, George

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Gibbons, Billy

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

43.

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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Martin Luther