Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

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

Huneker, James G.

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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Pepys, Samuel

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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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

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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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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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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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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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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

George Eliot

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

29.

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 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

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

Gore, Tipper

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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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

Addison, Joseph

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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