Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Szell, George

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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

Plutarch

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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 was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

12.

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

Dietz, Howard

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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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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

18.

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

Aldous Huxley

19.

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

20.

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

25.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

28.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Winter, Arthur

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

36.

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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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.

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Huneker, James G.