Motivational Quotes

Music

I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

- Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

Best Quotes about Music

1.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

2.

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

3.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

4.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

5.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

6.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

7.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

8.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

9.

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

10.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

11.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Woody Allen

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

17.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

18.

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

19.

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

20.

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

21.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

22.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

24.

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

25.

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

26.

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

27.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

28.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

29.

I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

30.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

31.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

32.

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

33.

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

Ruskin, John

34.

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

35.

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

Mencken, H. L.

36.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

37.

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

Wordsworth, William

38.

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

39.

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

40.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

41.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

42.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

43.

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.