Motivational Quotes

Music

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

- Duffecy, James

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Plutarch

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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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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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Gore, Tipper

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Plato

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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

Green, Benny

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Lennon, John

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Gibbons, Billy

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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