Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Dan Rather

Best Quotes about Music

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

Davis, Miles

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

Johnson, Samuel

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

10.

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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

12.

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 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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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

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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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

24.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

28.

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

Brown, James

29.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

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

Miller, Henry

31.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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[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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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

35.

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

36.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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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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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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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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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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

Hugo, Victor

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe