Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is only love looking for words.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Music

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Plato

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

13.

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

14.

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

Newman, Ernest

15.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

16.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

18.

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

Gibbons, Billy

19.

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

Kin Hubbard

20.

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

Zappa, Frank

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

23.

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

24.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

25.

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

George Santayana

26.

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

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

28.

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

Huxley, Aldous

29.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

30.

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

31.

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

Ed Gardner

32.

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

33.

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

34.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

35.

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

Wilson, Colin

36.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

37.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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

39.

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.

40.

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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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

42.

[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

43.

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

Davis, Miles

44.

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

45.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

46.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

47.

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

48.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

49.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

50.

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