Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

George Santayana

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

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

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

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

George Eliot

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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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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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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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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

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Plato

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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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

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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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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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

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kin Hubbard

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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

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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, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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

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

Sousa, John Philip

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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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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Huxley, Aldous

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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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'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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

William Shakespeare

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.