Motivational Quotes

Music

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

- Coward, Noel

Best Quotes about Music

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Martin Luther

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

John Erskine

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

34.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Ruskin, John

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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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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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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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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.