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

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

10.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

14.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

15.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

16.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

17.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

18.

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

19.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

23.

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

24.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

25.

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

Newman, Ernest

26.

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

J. K. Rowling

28.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

29.

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

30.

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

Wordsworth, William

31.

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

Lynn, Loretta

32.

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

G. K. Chesterton

33.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

34.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

35.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

36.

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

37.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

38.

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

39.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

40.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

41.

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

Addison, Joseph

42.

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

43.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

44.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

45.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

46.

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

47.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

48.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

49.

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

50.

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