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The history of a people is found in its songs.
- Jellinek, George
Music Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Music

1.
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

2.
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)

3.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
Johnson, James Weldon

4.
Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
Billings, Josh

5.
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

6.
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw

7.
Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.
Luther, Martin

8.
People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.
Lutoslawski, Witold

9.
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
Ed Gardner

10.
The history of a people is found in its songs.
Jellinek, George

11.
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

12.
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

13.
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
Beecham, Sir Thomas

14.
A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
Lynn, Loretta

15.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Tolstoy, Count Leo

16.
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
Green, Benny

17.
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

18.
She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
Beerbohm, Sir Max

19.
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

20.
A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
Beecham, Sir Thomas

21.
I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.
Grant, Ulysses S.

22.
Music, moody food of us that trade in love.
William Shakespeare

23.
I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
Starr, Ringo

24.
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

25.
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Plutarch

26.
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.
Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
Cooke, Alistair

28.
[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.
Chuck Sigars

29.
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

30.
You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.
Gore, Tipper

31.
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Carlyle, Thomas

32.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Robert Fripp

33.
Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

35.
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
George Santayana

36.
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Zappa, Frank

37.
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

38.
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

39.
Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.
Packard, Vance

40.
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Cocteau, Jean

41.
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Edgar Wilson Nye

42.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot

43.
It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Johnson, Samuel

44.
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

45.
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

46.
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

47.
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
Mencken, H. L.

48.
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

49.
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
Tate, Jeffrey

50.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Beethoven, Ludwig Van


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