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.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Music

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Luther, Martin

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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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I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

19.

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

Green, Benny

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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 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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Plato

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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 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 causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilson, Colin

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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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

Hugo, Victor

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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.

William Shakespeare

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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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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