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

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Aldous Huxley

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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

Huneker, James G.

10.

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

Lennon, John

11.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

12.

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

13.

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

Plato

14.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

15.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Billings, Josh

17.

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

18.

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

Green, Benny

19.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

20.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

21.

The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

22.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

23.

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

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

26.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

27.

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

Gore, Tipper

28.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

29.

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

Franklin, Aretha

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

33.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

34.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

35.

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

36.

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

Dan Rather

37.

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

38.

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

39.

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

40.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

41.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

42.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

43.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

44.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

45.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

46.

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