Motivational Quotes

Music

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

- George Eliot

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

George Eliot

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

Huxley, Aldous

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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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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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

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

Aldous Huxley

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Gibbons, Billy

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.