Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Ed Gardner

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Winter, Arthur

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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

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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Woody Allen

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

William Shakespeare

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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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

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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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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Ed Gardner

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

Davis, Miles

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Attali, Jacques

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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