Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- William Shakespeare

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

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Franklin, Aretha

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

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

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

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

20.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 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.

28.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

37.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Armstrong, Louis

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence