Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Gibbons, Billy

Best Quotes about Music

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Ed Gardner

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Franklin, Aretha

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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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

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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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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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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

George Eliot

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

Aldous Huxley

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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

39.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Newman, Ernest

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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono