Motivational Quotes

Music

I hate music, especially when it's played.

- Jimmy Durante

Best Quotes about Music

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

11.

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

Davis, Miles

12.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

14.

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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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

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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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

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

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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

22.

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Brown, James

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

26.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

29.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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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

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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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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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

40.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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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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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

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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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

Woody Allen

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.