Motivational Quotes

Music

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Music

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Zappa, Frank

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

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

I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

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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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Huneker, James G.

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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

George Santayana

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

Billings, Josh

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

Lynn, Loretta

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

George Eliot

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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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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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

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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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

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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

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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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.