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

1.

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

2.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

3.

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

4.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

5.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

6.

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

7.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

8.

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

Luther, Martin

9.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

10.

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

Lynn, Loretta

11.

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

G. K. Chesterton

12.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

13.

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

14.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

15.

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

16.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

17.

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

18.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Kin Hubbard

23.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

24.

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

25.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

26.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

32.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

33.

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

Sousa, John Philip

34.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

37.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

38.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

39.

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

40.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

41.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

42.

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

Winter, Arthur

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

45.

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

46.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

47.

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

48.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

49.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

50.

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