Motivational Quotes

Music

I hate music, especially when it's played.

- Jimmy Durante

Best Quotes about Music

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Brown, James

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Ed Gardner

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

Szell, George

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

12.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

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

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Addison, Joseph

23.

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

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Gore, Tipper

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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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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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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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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

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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