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 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

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Tate, Jeffrey

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Aldous Huxley

11.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Billings, Josh

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

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, James

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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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.

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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.

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Kin Hubbard

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Lennon, John

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

George Santayana

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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

Franklin, Aretha

42.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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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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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George