Motivational Quotes

Music

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

- Coward, Noel

Best Quotes about Music

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Armstrong, Louis

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Plutarch

11.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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

Wilson, Colin

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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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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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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 song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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

Gibbons, Billy

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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 is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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 was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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 shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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

Huxley, Aldous

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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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

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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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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Plato