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

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

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

Davis, Miles

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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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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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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

14.

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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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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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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

Addison, Joseph

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

John Erskine

20.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Green, Benny

23.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

25.

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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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

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

28.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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

Plato

30.

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

31.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Lynn, Loretta

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

40.

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

41.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

43.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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