Motivational Quotes

Music

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

- Mascagni, Pietro

Best Quotes about Music

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

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Gibbons, Billy

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

William Shakespeare

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

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

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

Gore, Tipper

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Luther, Martin

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

Rattle, Simon

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Huneker, James G.

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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 can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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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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

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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 high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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 was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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