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

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Rattle, Simon

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Ed Gardner

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Davis, Miles

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Ruskin, John

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

Franklin, Aretha

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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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

Dietz, Howard

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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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

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Billings, Josh

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Wilson, Colin

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

William Shakespeare

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin