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

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

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

G. K. Chesterton

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Wordsworth, William

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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 was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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

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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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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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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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 spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Rattle, Simon

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

Luther, Martin

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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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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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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You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.