Motivational Quotes

Music

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

- Jackson, Michael

Best Quotes about Music

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

William Shakespeare

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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 when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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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

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

Aldous Huxley

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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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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Huneker, James G.

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schnabel, Artur

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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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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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Gibbons, Billy

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.