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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
- Auden, W. H.
Music Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Music

1.
Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.
Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

2.
A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
Lynn, Loretta

3.
You don't need any brains to listen to music.
Pavarotti, Luciano

4.
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

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

6.
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
Morrison, Van

7.
I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.
Taylor, James

8.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Beethoven, Ludwig Van

9.
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.
Beecham, Sir Thomas

10.
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

11.
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

12.
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
Giles, Henry

13.
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
Conroy, Pat

14.
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

15.
Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.
Dietz, Howard

16.
The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Shakespeare, William

17.
I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
Brown, James

18.
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Camus, Albert

19.
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

20.
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
Thomas, Lewis

21.
Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
Duffecy, James

22.
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
Green, Benny

23.
I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
Bacall, Lauren

24.
Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.
Holly, Buddy

25.
Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.
Haweis, H. R.

26.
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
Wilde, Oscar

27.
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Stravinsky, Igor

28.
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.
Steiner, George

29.
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.
Music causes us to think eloquently.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.
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

32.
Good music is very close to primitive language.
Diderot, Denis

33.
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

34.
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

35.
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

36.
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

37.
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
Mencken, H. L.

38.
Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
Cooke, Alistair

39.
I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.
William Shakespeare

40.
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
Genet, Jean

41.
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

42.
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

43.
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw

44.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
John Erskine

45.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
Johnson, James Weldon

46.
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
Wilson, Colin

47.
Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.
Luther, Martin

48.
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

49.
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

50.
Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
Pepys, Samuel


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