Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Music

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

Aldous Huxley

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

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

Wordsworth, William

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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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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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Lynn, Loretta

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

John Erskine

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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

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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

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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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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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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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

Gibbons, Billy

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