Motivational Quotes

Music

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

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

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

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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)

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

Sousa, John Philip

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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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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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Lennon, John

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

Plutarch

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair