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

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Winter, Arthur

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

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Hugo, Victor

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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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

11.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

12.

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

Armstrong, Louis

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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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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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.

Pound, Ezra

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

Huxley, Aldous

22.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

William Shakespeare

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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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

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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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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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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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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

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

Sousa, John Philip

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.