Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- G. K. Chesterton

Best Quotes about Music

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

Plutarch

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

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

John Erskine

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Auden, W. H.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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)

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

Pepys, Samuel

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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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

Dan Rather

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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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

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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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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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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

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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.

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Wilde, Oscar

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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van