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

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Kin Hubbard

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

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

Winter, Arthur

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Huxley, Aldous

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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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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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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Szell, George

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, James

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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 beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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

Lynn, Loretta

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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 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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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Attali, Jacques

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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 can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

George Santayana

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George