Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

John Erskine

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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 causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Zappa, Frank

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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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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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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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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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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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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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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

41.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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

Woody Allen

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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Armstrong, Louis

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul