Motivational Quotes

Music

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

- Bacall, Lauren

Best Quotes about Music

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

Gibbons, Billy

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Gore, Tipper

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

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

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

George Santayana

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Mencken, H. L.

11.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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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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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

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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

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Armstrong, Louis

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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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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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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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