Motivational Quotes

Music

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Music

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Aldous Huxley

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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

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

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

Miller, Henry

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

11.

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 is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

13.

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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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 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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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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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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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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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

25.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Luther, Martin

28.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

32.

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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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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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

George Eliot

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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

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

Billings, Josh

40.

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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

42.

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

J. K. Rowling

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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 is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert