Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Music

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Dietz, Howard

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

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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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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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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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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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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

22.

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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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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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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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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

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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 is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Luther, Martin

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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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 essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul