Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

Best Quotes about Music

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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

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

Armstrong, Louis

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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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 is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Plato

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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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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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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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

J. K. Rowling

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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

Hugo, Victor

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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[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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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye