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

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

4.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

5.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

6.

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

Luther, Martin

7.

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

8.

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

Wilson, Colin

9.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

10.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

11.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

12.

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

13.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

14.

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

15.

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

George Bernard Shaw

16.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

17.

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

18.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

19.

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

20.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Lynn, Loretta

25.

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

Plutarch

26.

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

Mencken, H. L.

27.

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

Zappa, Frank

28.

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

Pepys, Samuel

29.

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

30.

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

Huxley, Aldous

31.

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.

32.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

33.

A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

34.

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

35.

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

Szell, George

36.

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

Woody Allen

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

41.

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

Attali, Jacques

42.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

43.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

44.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

45.

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

Davis, Miles

46.

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

Gibbons, Billy

47.

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

Plato

48.

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

Auden, W. H.

49.

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

Brown, James

50.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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