Motivational Quotes

Music

Music causes us to think eloquently.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Gore, Tipper

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

John Erskine

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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

George Santayana

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

10.

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

Pepys, Samuel

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

William Shakespeare

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

Newman, Ernest

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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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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 well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gibbons, Billy

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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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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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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.

Martin Luther

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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Winter, Arthur

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

Plutarch

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

Szell, George

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore