Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Lutoslawski, Witold

Best Quotes about Music

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Aldous Huxley

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Huneker, James G.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Lennon, John

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir 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 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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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 shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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