Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Attali, Jacques

Best Quotes about Music

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

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

J. K. Rowling

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

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

12.

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Kin Hubbard

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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 effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Gore, Tipper

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

John Erskine

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

George Santayana

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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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