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

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

Kin Hubbard

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

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

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

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

Davis, Miles

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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 is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Ed Gardner

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Cosby, Bill

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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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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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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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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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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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Addison, Joseph

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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

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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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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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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Lennon, John

48.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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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

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

Armstrong, Louis