Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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

William Shakespeare

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

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 like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Gore, Tipper

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

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

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

10.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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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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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

21.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Davis, Miles

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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

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

Aldous Huxley

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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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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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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