Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Music

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

G. K. Chesterton

Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Huneker, James G.

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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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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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

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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

22.

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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ruskin, John

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

Lennon, John

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

Addison, Joseph

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I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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 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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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques