Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

- Latham, Geoffrey

Best Quotes about Music

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

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Wilson, Colin

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

12.

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

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Luther, Martin

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

Plato

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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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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

27.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

28.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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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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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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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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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 history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Davis, Miles

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

J. K. Rowling

42.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

43.

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

Lennon, John

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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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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

46.

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

Huxley, Aldous

49.

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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