Motivational Quotes

Music

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

- Neville, Richard

Best Quotes about Music

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

George Santayana

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Zappa, Frank

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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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

Lennon, John

21.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Dietz, Howard

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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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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

41.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Luther, Martin

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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.