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

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

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

George Eliot

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Davis, Miles

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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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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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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

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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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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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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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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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

Johnson, Samuel