Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Huneker, James G.

Best Quotes about Music

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Addison, Joseph

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

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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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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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Pepys, Samuel

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gibbons, Billy

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Oscar Wilde

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.