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, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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

Carlyle, Thomas

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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

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

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Davis, Miles

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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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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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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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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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

28.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Szell, George

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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

Aldous Huxley

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I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

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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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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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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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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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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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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

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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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You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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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

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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, James

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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 man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William