Motivational Quotes

Music

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

- John Cage

Best Quotes about Music

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

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

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Pepys, Samuel

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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 and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

William Shakespeare

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

J. K. Rowling

31.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Woody Allen

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Davis, Miles

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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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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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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John