Motivational Quotes

Music

I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

- Franklin, Aretha

Best Quotes about Music

1.

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

Addison, Joseph

2.

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

Plutarch

3.

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

Woody Allen

4.

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

5.

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

Wilson, Colin

6.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

7.

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

Kin Hubbard

8.

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

George Santayana

9.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

10.

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

11.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

12.

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

13.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

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

John Erskine

17.

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

Dan Rather

18.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

19.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

Miller, Henry

25.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

26.

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.

27.

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

Mencken, H. L.

28.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

29.

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

Huxley, Aldous

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

33.

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

Gore, Tipper

34.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

35.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

36.

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

Plato

37.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

38.

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

Davis, Miles

39.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

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

41.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

42.

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

43.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

44.

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