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

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

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

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

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

10.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

21.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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

Lynn, Loretta

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Aldous Huxley

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

35.

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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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'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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

Ed Gardner

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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

40.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

41.

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

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

George Eliot

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

Wilson, Colin

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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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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)

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lennon, John

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van