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

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

Lynn, Loretta

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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

Wilson, Colin

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

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

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

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

Pepys, Samuel

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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

11.

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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 and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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

Addison, Joseph

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

19.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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

Mencken, H. L.

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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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

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Davis, Miles

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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

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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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