Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Johnson, James Weldon

Best Quotes about Music

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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

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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

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

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

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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

Newman, Ernest

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Miller, Henry

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

Wilson, Colin

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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