Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Music

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

Newman, Ernest

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

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gibbons, Billy

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Luther, Martin

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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

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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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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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

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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

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

Plutarch

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You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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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.

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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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 the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Davis, Miles

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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