Motivational Quotes

Music

Song is the heroics of speech.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Music

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

George Eliot

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

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Gore, Tipper

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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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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Aldous Huxley

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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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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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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

Ed Gardner

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

Miller, Henry

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Music causes us to think eloquently.