Motivational Quotes

Music

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Music

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Huneker, James G.

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

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

12.

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

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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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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

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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

Dan Rather

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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)

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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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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Gore, Tipper

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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