Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Franklin, Aretha

Best Quotes about Music

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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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 trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Luther, Martin

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

Gibbons, Billy

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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

Lennon, John

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Davis, Miles

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

Plutarch

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

George Eliot

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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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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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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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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

Ruskin, John

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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