Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Music

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Wilson, Colin

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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

Lennon, John

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Auden, W. H.

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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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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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Miller, Henry

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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

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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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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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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

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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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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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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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Gibbons, Billy

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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

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I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James