Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Music

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Winter, Arthur

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

12.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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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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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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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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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Lynn, Loretta

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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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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.

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

Kin Hubbard

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

George Santayana

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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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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

Addison, Joseph

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

G. K. Chesterton

45.

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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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