Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Plutarch

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

Aldous Huxley

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

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

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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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[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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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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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

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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

William Shakespeare

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 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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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Dietz, Howard

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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

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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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

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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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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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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