Motivational Quotes

Music

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

- Jackson, Michael

Best Quotes about Music

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Rattle, Simon

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

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

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

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

Franklin, Aretha

10.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

11.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

12.

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.

13.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

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

Davis, Miles

15.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

16.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

17.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

18.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

19.

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

20.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

22.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

23.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

24.

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

25.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

26.

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

Schnabel, Artur

27.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

28.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

29.

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

Huneker, James G.

30.

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

31.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

32.

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

Woody Allen

33.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

34.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

35.

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

36.

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

37.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

38.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

39.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

40.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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

42.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

43.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

44.

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

John Erskine

45.

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

Armstrong, Louis

46.

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

47.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

48.

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

49.

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

Addison, Joseph

50.

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