Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Rattle, Simon

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lennon, John

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

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

John Erskine

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

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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

Ed Gardner

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Winter, Arthur

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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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

William Shakespeare

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gibbons, Billy

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Armstrong, Louis

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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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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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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

Wordsworth, William

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Plutarch

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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