Motivational Quotes

Music

Good music is very close to primitive language.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Music

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

Rattle, Simon

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

George Bernard Shaw

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Davis, Miles

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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

Miller, Henry

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

10.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

20.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Green, Benny

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

William Shakespeare

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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 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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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Aldous Huxley

34.

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

37.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

41.

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

43.

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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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