Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Plato

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

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

Brown, James

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Woody Allen

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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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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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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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Oscar Wilde

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Miller, Henry

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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

Gore, Tipper

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

J. K. Rowling

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

George Bernard Shaw

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I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

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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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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Auden, W. H.

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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.