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

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

Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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

Lennon, John

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

Dan Rather

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

Pepys, Samuel

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sousa, John Philip

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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

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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 and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Huneker, James G.

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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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

Plato

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

Plutarch

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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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?