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 when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Franklin, Aretha

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Hugo, Victor

35.

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Oscar Wilde

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Luther, Martin

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

Aldous Huxley