Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Newman, Ernest

Best Quotes about Music

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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

Attali, Jacques

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Davis, Miles

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

The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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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 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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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Luther, Martin

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

George Santayana

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Carlyle, 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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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

William Shakespeare

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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 is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Zappa, Frank

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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 hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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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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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

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

George Eliot

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.