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

Miller, Henry

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

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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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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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Brown, James

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Plutarch

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Huneker, James G.

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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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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I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

William Shakespeare

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan