Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

- George Santayana

Best Quotes about Music

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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

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

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

11.

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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

Miller, Henry

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I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

J. K. Rowling

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

19.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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

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[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

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Luther, Martin

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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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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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

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

John Erskine

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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

49.

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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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.