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

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

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

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

Plutarch

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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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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

Miller, Henry

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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

19.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

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

Gibbons, Billy

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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 is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ed Gardner

35.

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

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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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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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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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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

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

43.

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Green, Benny

46.

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

Lennon, John

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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.