Motivational Quotes

Music

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Music

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Armstrong, Louis

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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

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

Woody Allen

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

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

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

Lennon, John

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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

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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

Attali, Jacques

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Miller, Henry

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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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

Johnson, Samuel

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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Franklin, Aretha

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

33.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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

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

Newman, Ernest

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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

Hugo, Victor

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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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)