Motivational Quotes

Music

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

- Cooke, Alistair

Best Quotes about Music

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

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

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

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dietz, Howard

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Winter, Arthur

18.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Dan Rather

20.

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

21.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

22.

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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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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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

25.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

36.

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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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Huxley, Aldous

40.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

41.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

G. K. Chesterton

43.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.