Motivational Quotes

Music

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

- Britten, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Music

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

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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 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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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Luther, Martin

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Newman, Ernest

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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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

Dietz, Howard

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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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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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Britten, Benjamin

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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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

Lynn, Loretta

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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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

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat