Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Lynn, Loretta

Best Quotes about Music

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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 was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Gibbons, Billy

10.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

11.

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

12.

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

13.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Ed Gardner

17.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

18.

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

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

21.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

22.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

23.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

24.

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

25.

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

Dietz, Howard

26.

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

G. K. Chesterton

27.

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

28.

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

29.

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

Huxley, Aldous

30.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

31.

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

32.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

33.

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

Gore, Tipper

34.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

35.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Rattle, Simon

39.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

40.

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

41.

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

Hugo, Victor

42.

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

Plutarch

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

47.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

48.

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

Miller, Henry

49.

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

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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