Motivational Quotes

Music

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

- Neville, Richard

Best Quotes about Music

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Lynn, Loretta

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Plutarch

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Addison, Joseph

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Dietz, Howard

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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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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Zappa, Frank

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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

Newman, Ernest

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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

Kin Hubbard

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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Pepys, Samuel

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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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

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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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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.