Motivational Quotes

Music

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

- Cosby, Bill

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Hugo, Victor

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Green, Benny

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

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

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

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

Plato

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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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

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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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

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

Oscar Wilde

18.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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

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

Lennon, John

26.

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

Franklin, Aretha

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

30.

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

35.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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.

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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

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

Addison, Joseph

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

John Erskine

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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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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max