Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Huneker, James G.

Best Quotes about Music

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

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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

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

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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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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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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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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A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Hugo, Victor

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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

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

Lennon, John

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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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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

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

Huneker, James G.

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.