Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

- Winter, Arthur

Best Quotes about Music

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Attali, Jacques

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

Szell, George

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.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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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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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To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Gore, Tipper

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

33.

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

Gibbons, Billy

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

35.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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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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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

46.

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

Franklin, Aretha

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