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

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

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

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

Lennon, John

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

George Eliot

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Gibbons, Billy

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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

Woody Allen

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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William Shakespeare

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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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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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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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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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 shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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