Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Addison, Joseph

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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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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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Armstrong, Louis

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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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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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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Sousa, John Philip

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Ed Gardner

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

Aldous Huxley

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lynn, Loretta

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