Motivational Quotes

Music

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.

Best Quotes about Music

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

10.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

15.

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

Lennon, John

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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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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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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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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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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

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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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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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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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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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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

33.

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

34.

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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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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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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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

41.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

42.

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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Hugo, Victor

47.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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

Armstrong, Louis