Motivational Quotes

Music

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Music

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

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

Gibbons, Billy

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

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

Newman, Ernest

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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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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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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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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Aldous Huxley

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Armstrong, Louis

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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 is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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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