Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Music

[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

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Huneker, James G.

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Attali, Jacques

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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

Armstrong, Louis

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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

George Eliot

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Davis, Miles