Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

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

Woody Allen

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Johnson, James Weldon

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

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

10.

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

11.

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

Martin Luther

12.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

20.

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

21.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

22.

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

Miller, Henry

23.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

24.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

35.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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

J. K. Rowling

41.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

42.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

43.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Kin Hubbard

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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

Luther, Martin

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van