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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Plato

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Attali, Jacques

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

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

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

Johnson, James Weldon

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

10.

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

11.

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

12.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

13.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

14.

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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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

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

17.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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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

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

21.

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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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

23.

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

Brown, James

24.

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

35.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

40.

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

Zappa, Frank

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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

44.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

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.

49.

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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye