Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Wilson, Colin

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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

Billings, Josh

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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

Gibbons, Billy

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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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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Newman, Ernest

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I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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 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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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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 two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Miller, Henry

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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.