Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Gibbons, Billy

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Luther, Martin

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

Lennon, John

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

Brown, James

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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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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 the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ruskin, John

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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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)

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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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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

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Newman, Ernest

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

William Shakespeare

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

Brown, James

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van