Motivational Quotes

Music

I hate music, especially when it's played.

- Jimmy Durante

Best Quotes about Music

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

Luther, Martin

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

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

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Ruskin, John

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Pepys, Samuel

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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

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

Huneker, James G.

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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