Motivational Quotes

Music

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

- Carpenter, Mary Chapin

Best Quotes about Music

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

George Santayana

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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.

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Hugo, Victor

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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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 is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Franklin, Aretha

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Newman, Ernest

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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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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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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gore, Tipper

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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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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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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon