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

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Martin Luther

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

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

George Eliot

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

Luther, Martin

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

J. K. Rowling

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Aldous Huxley

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.