Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

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

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Addison, Joseph

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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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 is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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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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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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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. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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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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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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