Motivational Quotes

Music

I hate music, especially when it's played.

- Jimmy Durante

Best Quotes about Music

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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 of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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

George Eliot

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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 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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

William Shakespeare

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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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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana