Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Billings, Josh

I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Schnabel, Artur

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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.

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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

Winter, Arthur

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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

Miller, Henry

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Rattle, Simon

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Huneker, James G.

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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

William Shakespeare

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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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. 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

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

Woody Allen

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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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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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel