Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

J. K. Rowling

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

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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

George Santayana

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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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 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 was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

William Shakespeare

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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

John Erskine

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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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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul