Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Wilson, Colin

Best Quotes about Music

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

Billings, Josh

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Woody Allen

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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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

11.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

George Bernard Shaw

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Plutarch

24.

People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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

28.

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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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

32.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Green, Benny

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

40.

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 should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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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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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.

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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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