Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Beecham, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Music

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

Addison, Joseph

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

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

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

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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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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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Lennon, John

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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

Billings, Josh

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Newman, Ernest

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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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Wilson, Colin

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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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 often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.