Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

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

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

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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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

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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

G. K. Chesterton

21.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Gore, Tipper

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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 of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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

William Shakespeare

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas