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

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

10.

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

John Erskine

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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

15.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

16.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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

Huxley, Aldous

19.

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

22.

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

23.

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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Green, Benny

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

33.

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

Gore, Tipper

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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

Lennon, John

40.

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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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.

46.

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

48.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Sir Thomas Beecham