Motivational Quotes

Music

Country music is three chords and the truth.

- Howard, Harlan

Best Quotes about Music

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

George Eliot

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Armstrong, Louis

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

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

Pepys, Samuel

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Hugo, Victor

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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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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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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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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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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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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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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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana