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

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

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

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

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

Pepys, Samuel

Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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

Winter, Arthur

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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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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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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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 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 is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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 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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

John Erskine

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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. 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

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.