Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about 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

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Martin Luther

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

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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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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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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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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

Dietz, Howard

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

William Shakespeare

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Winter, Arthur

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Addison, Joseph

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.