Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Dietz, Howard

Best Quotes about Music

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

John Erskine

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

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

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

12.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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

14.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

17.

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

Gore, Tipper

18.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Davis, Miles

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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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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.

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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

27.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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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

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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

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

J. K. Rowling

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Wordsworth, William

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

43.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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 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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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert