Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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

Tate, Jeffrey

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Davis, Miles

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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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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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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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

John Erskine

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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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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Plutarch

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Dietz, Howard

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Armstrong, Louis

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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)

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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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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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo