Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Music

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

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

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

11.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

12.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

13.

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 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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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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

31.

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

Miller, Henry

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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

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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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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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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Lynn, Loretta

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Lennon, John

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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.