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 was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

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

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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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

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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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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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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

20.

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Gibbons, Billy

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Plato

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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.

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Plutarch

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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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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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[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

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

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

Aldous Huxley

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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 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