Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Best Quotes about Music

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

Newman, Ernest

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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)

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

Billings, Josh

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Ed Gardner

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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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

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Plutarch

35.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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