Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Gore, Tipper

10.

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

11.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

12.

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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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

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

16.

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

Cocteau, Jean

17.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

18.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Newman, Ernest

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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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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

24.

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

Woody Allen

25.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

26.

[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

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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

28.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Plutarch

31.

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

32.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

33.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

34.

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

35.

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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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

39.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

40.

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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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

42.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

43.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

44.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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

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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

47.

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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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