Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Lynn, Loretta

Best Quotes about Music

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

Oscar Wilde

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aldous Huxley

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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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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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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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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

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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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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

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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance