Motivational Quotes

Music

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Camus, Albert

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.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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

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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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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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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

33.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Brown, James

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

Schnabel, Artur

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

Luther, Martin

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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.