Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Music

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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

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

Luther, Martin

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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Newman, Ernest

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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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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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 is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Armstrong, Louis

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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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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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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

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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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 is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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

John Erskine

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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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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