Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- G. K. Chesterton

Best Quotes about Music

[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

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

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

Aldous Huxley

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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

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

Miller, Henry

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Davis, Miles

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Plutarch

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Martin Luther

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

Hugo, Victor

43.

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

Huneker, James G.

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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

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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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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage