Motivational Quotes

Music

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

- George Bernard Shaw

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Wilson, Colin

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Luther, Martin

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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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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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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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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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

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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Hugo, Victor

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