Motivational Quotes

Music

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

- Cooke, Alistair

Best Quotes about Music

[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

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

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

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Luther, Martin

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

William Shakespeare

10.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

11.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

12.

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

13.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

15.

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

16.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

G. K. Chesterton

20.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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

John Erskine

22.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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

24.

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

25.

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

28.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

29.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

31.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

32.

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

Auden, W. H.

33.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

34.

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.

35.

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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To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Plutarch

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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

39.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

41.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

42.

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

Pepys, Samuel

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

45.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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

47.

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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

49.

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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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil