Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Grant, Ulysses S.

Best Quotes about Music

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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.

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

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

Luther, Martin

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

10.

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

Cocteau, Jean

11.

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

Aldous Huxley

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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

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

18.

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

Plutarch

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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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You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Pepys, Samuel

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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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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Wordsworth, William

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

29.

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

William Shakespeare

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Huneker, James G.

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Newman, Ernest

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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

Franklin, Aretha