Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- George Eliot

Best Quotes about Music

1.

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

Brown, James

2.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

3.

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

4.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

5.

A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

6.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

7.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

8.

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

9.

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

10.

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

11.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

12.

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

13.

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

Szell, George

14.

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

15.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

16.

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

17.

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

Miller, Henry

18.

I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

19.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

20.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

21.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

22.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

23.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

24.

The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

25.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

26.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

27.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

28.

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

Brown, James

29.

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

30.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

31.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

32.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

33.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

34.

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

35.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

36.

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

37.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

38.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

39.

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

Aldous Huxley

40.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

41.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

43.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

44.

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)

45.

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

46.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

47.

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

Wilde, Oscar

48.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

49.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.