Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Music

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

George Eliot

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

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

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Gore, Tipper

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

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Ed Gardner

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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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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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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Franklin, Aretha

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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Miller, Henry

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

Huneker, James G.

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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

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

Rattle, Simon

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

34.

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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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Pepys, Samuel

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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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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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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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

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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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I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

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