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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.
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Best Quotes about Music

1.
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Coward, Noel

2.
Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.
Huneker, James G.

3.
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

4.
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

5.
A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
Beecham, Sir Thomas

6.
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
George Santayana

7.
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

8.
Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.
Packard, Vance

9.
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

10.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot

11.
Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
Pepys, Samuel

12.
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

13.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

14.
When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.
Halpern, Steven

15.
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky

16.
Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.
Dietz, Howard

17.
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.
Pound, Ezra

18.
Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
Wordsworth, William

19.
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

20.
A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
Lynn, Loretta

21.
I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.
William Shakespeare

22.
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

23.
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

24.
If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.
Proverb, Zimbabwe

25.
Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
Johnson, Samuel

26.
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

27.
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
Miller, Henry

28.
A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.
Newman, Ernest

29.
Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
Davis, Miles

30.
She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
Beerbohm, Sir Max

31.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
Beethoven, Ludwig Van

32.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Oscar Wilde

33.
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Plutarch

34.
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

35.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Robert Fripp

36.
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Huxley, Aldous

37.
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.

38.
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

39.
I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
Franklin, Aretha

40.
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

41.
You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.
Gore, Tipper

42.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato

43.
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

44.
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

45.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G. K. Chesterton

46.
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

47.
Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

48.
Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Wilde, Oscar

49.
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
Keats, John

50.
Mozart is sweet sunshine.
Dvorak, Antonin


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