Motivational Quotes

Music

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

- Beerbohm, Sir Max

Best Quotes about Music

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

Szell, George

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

Zappa, Frank

10.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

11.

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

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

J. K. Rowling

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

21.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

24.

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

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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

26.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

27.

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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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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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

39.

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

40.

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

41.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Pepys, Samuel

43.

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

Attali, Jacques

44.

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)

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Song is the heroics of speech.

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