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

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

Davis, Miles

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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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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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 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

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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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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

25.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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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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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Lynn, Loretta

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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Brown, James

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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