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 the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Kin Hubbard

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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

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

Woody Allen

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

31.

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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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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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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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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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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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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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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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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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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

Addison, Joseph

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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