Motivational Quotes

Music

The high note is not the only thing.

- Domingo, Placido

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Oscar Wilde

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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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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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

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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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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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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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 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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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Mencken, H. L.

41.

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

Dan Rather

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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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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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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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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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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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

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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.