Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

- Morrison, Van

Best Quotes about Music

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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

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

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

Franklin, Aretha

When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Rattle, Simon

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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Dietz, Howard

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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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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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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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

43.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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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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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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, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare