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

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

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

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

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

William Shakespeare

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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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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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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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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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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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

George Eliot

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Aldous Huxley

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Winter, Arthur

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

Mencken, H. L.

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.