Motivational Quotes

Music

The high note is not the only thing.

- Domingo, Placido

Best Quotes about Music

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

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Zappa, Frank

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Dietz, Howard

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

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Kin Hubbard

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

10.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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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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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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

15.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

16.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

17.

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

18.

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

19.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

20.

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

Auden, W. H.

21.

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

Gore, Tipper

22.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

23.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

24.

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

25.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

26.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

27.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

28.

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

29.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

30.

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

31.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

32.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

33.

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

34.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

35.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

36.

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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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.

39.

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

Gibbons, Billy

40.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

41.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

42.

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

Huxley, Aldous

43.

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

44.

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

45.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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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

48.

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

49.

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

John Erskine

50.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van