Motivational Quotes

Music

Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

- Lingerman, Hal A.

Best Quotes about Music

Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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 music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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

Ruskin, John

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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

Newman, Ernest

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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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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

13.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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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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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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, 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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

28.

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

Plutarch

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Lynn, Loretta

34.

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

35.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Mencken, H. L.

37.

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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