Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Wilson, Colin

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

10.

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

Martin Luther

11.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

12.

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

Plutarch

13.

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

14.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

15.

The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

17.

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

18.

Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

19.

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

20.

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

21.

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

Szell, George

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

27.

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

Wilde, Oscar

28.

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

29.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

30.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

31.

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

32.

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

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

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

35.

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

Lennon, John

36.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

39.

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

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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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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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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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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

45.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

47.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

48.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

49.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.