Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Music

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

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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

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

Newman, Ernest

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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

11.

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

John Erskine

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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. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

17.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

20.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

22.

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

23.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

24.

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

25.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Armstrong, Louis

28.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Rattle, Simon

30.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

31.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

32.

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

34.

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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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

37.

I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

38.

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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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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

Huxley, Aldous

41.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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

Tate, Jeffrey

44.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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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.