Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Best Quotes about Music

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

Zappa, Frank

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

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

10.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Addison, Joseph

19.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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

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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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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Green, Benny

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere 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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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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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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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 is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Franklin, Aretha