Motivational Quotes

Music

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

- Giles, Henry

Best Quotes about Music

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

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

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

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Brown, James

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

Plato

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Luther, Martin

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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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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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.

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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

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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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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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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.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

George Eliot