Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Huneker, James G.

Best Quotes about Music

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

John Erskine

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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

Kin Hubbard

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Rattle, Simon

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Davis, Miles

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Aldous Huxley

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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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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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

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

28.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

29.

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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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

32.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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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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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

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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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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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

Green, Benny

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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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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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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

William Shakespeare

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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