Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Music

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Miller, Henry

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Cocteau, Jean

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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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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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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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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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Davis, Miles

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Ruskin, John

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Attali, Jacques

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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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)