Motivational Quotes

Music

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

- Giles, Henry

Best Quotes about Music

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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

Dan Rather

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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

Sousa, John Philip

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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.

12.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

13.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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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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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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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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

20.

The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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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

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

25.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Dietz, Howard

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

37.

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

38.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

42.

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

Brown, James

43.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Huneker, James G.

48.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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