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

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

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

Hugo, Victor

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Plato

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Wilde, Oscar

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

10.

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

11.

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

Zappa, Frank

12.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

13.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

14.

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Ed Gardner

17.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

18.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

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

20.

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

Pepys, Samuel

21.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

22.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

23.

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

24.

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

Miller, Henry

25.

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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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

27.

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

28.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

29.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

30.

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

31.

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

Winter, Arthur

32.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

34.

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

35.

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

36.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

37.

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

38.

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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

40.

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

41.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

42.

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

43.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

44.

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

45.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

49.

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

Billings, Josh

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