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

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

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

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

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

George Eliot

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

10.

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

Ruskin, John

11.

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

12.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

13.

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

14.

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

Huneker, James G.

15.

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

Kin Hubbard

16.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

17.

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

Addison, Joseph

18.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

19.

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

Luther, Martin

20.

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

Dietz, Howard

21.

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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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

23.

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

John Erskine

24.

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

25.

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

Dan Rather

26.

Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

28.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

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

Cocteau, Jean

30.

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

31.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

33.

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

Miller, Henry

34.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

35.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

36.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

37.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

38.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

39.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

40.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

41.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

42.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

43.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

46.

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 is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

48.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

49.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

50.

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