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 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

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Green, Benny

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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

Newman, Ernest

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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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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

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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

William Shakespeare

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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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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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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

Pavarotti, Luciano