Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Music

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Huxley, Aldous

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Gore, Tipper

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Martin Luther

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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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

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Pepys, Samuel

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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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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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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Plutarch

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

Szell, George

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

George Eliot

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

Aldous Huxley

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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.

William Shakespeare

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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