Motivational Quotes

Music

Good music is very close to primitive language.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Music

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

I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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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 is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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

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

Plato

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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

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To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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

Gibbons, Billy

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

46.

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kin Hubbard

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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah