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

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Hugo, Victor

10.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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 hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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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Cosby, Bill

29.

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

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

Pepys, Samuel

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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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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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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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

Luther, Martin

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

Miller, Henry

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

41.

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 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 hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Huneker, James G.

45.

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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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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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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