Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Brown, James

Best Quotes about Music

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

Lynn, Loretta

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

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

Brown, James

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

John Erskine

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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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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Wilson, Colin

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

Attali, Jacques

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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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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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.