Motivational Quotes

Music

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Johnson, Samuel

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

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

Tate, Jeffrey

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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

Green, Benny

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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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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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Plutarch

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Lennon, John

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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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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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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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

42.

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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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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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

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