Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Newman, Ernest

Best Quotes about Music

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Ruskin, John

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Lynn, Loretta

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

12.

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Kin Hubbard

14.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

15.

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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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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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 is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

19.

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)

20.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Plutarch

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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

24.

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

Attali, Jacques

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

30.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

31.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

32.

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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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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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

35.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

37.

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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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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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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 the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

J. K. Rowling

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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

48.

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

49.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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