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

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

Gore, Tipper

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Hugo, Victor

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Attali, Jacques

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

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

Luther, Martin

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

10.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

11.

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

12.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

13.

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

14.

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

15.

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

16.

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

17.

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

18.

[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

19.

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

20.

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

21.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

22.

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

Lynn, Loretta

23.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

24.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

25.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

26.

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

28.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

29.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

30.

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

31.

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

Johnson, Samuel

32.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

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

Plato

36.

A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

37.

Music is only love looking for words.