Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Armstrong, Louis

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

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

Wilson, Colin

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Rattle, Simon

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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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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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

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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

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

Aldous Huxley

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

George Santayana

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

Plato

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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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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Miller, Henry

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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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

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

J. K. Rowling

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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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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

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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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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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

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

Davis, Miles

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

Green, Benny

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe