Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

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

Aldous Huxley

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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

Plato

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Woody Allen

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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

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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 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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Attali, Jacques

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

John Erskine

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