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

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

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

George Eliot

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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

Lennon, John

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

William Shakespeare

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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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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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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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.

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

Aldous Huxley

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Luther, Martin

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Addison, Joseph

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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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

Green, Benny

48.

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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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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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John