Motivational Quotes

Music

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

- Bacall, Lauren

Best Quotes about Music

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Ed Gardner

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Gibbons, Billy

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Kin Hubbard

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I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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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 high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Billings, Josh

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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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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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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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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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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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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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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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

Lennon, John

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.