Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Best Quotes about Music

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

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

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Addison, Joseph

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Szell, George

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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

21.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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 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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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 way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Kin Hubbard

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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