Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Zappa, Frank

Best Quotes about Music

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Miller, Henry

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Addison, Joseph

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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.

Virgil Thomson

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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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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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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 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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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Wilson, Colin

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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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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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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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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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

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

Plato

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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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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

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Winter, Arthur

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Franklin, Aretha

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.