Motivational Quotes

Music

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Music

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

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

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

11.

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

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

Ed Gardner

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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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

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

30.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Green, Benny

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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

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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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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Hugo, Victor

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Franklin, Aretha

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.