Motivational Quotes

Music

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

- Dvorak, Antonin

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Gore, Tipper

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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.

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

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Szell, George

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

14.

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

Oscar Wilde

15.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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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

18.

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

Hugo, Victor

20.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

21.

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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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

25.

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

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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

27.

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

28.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

29.

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

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

33.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

34.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

35.

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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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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

Kin Hubbard

38.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Tate, Jeffrey

40.

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

Dan Rather

41.

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

42.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.