Motivational Quotes

Music

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

- Beecham, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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)

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

George Santayana

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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

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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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

Green, Benny

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Plato

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Addison, Joseph

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ruskin, John

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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 good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

39.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas