Motivational Quotes

Music

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Music

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

Miller, Henry

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

Johnson, Samuel

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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

John Erskine

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

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

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

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

11.

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Pepys, Samuel

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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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 the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Huneker, James G.

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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, James

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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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

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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Hugo, Victor

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