Motivational Quotes

Music

The high note is not the only thing.

- Domingo, Placido

Best Quotes about Music

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

Lennon, John

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

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

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Gore, Tipper

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

10.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

11.

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 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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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

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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Green, Benny

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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 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

26.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Franklin, Aretha

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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

31.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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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

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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

George Santayana

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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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

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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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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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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

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John