Motivational Quotes

Music

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

- Bacall, Lauren

Best Quotes about Music

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Tate, Jeffrey

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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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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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Lennon, John

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

Armstrong, Louis

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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Woody Allen

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Luther, Martin

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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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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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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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

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