Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is only love looking for words.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Music

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

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)

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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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

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

George Eliot

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Kin Hubbard

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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 good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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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

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Addison, Joseph

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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

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

Davis, Miles

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

John Erskine

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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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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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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

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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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I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova