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

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

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

Plato

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

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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

Gore, Tipper

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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Franklin, Aretha

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Mencken, H. L.

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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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

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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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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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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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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

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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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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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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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas