Motivational Quotes

Music

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.

Best Quotes about Music

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wilson, Colin

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

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

J. K. Rowling

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

11.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Newman, Ernest

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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

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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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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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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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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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

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

Plato

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Franklin, Aretha

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro