Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Music

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Plutarch

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Newman, Ernest

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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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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 when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Huneker, James G.

25.

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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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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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

31.

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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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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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Tate, Jeffrey

37.

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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

Gore, Tipper

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Martin Luther