Motivational Quotes

Music

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

- Packard, Vance

Best Quotes about Music

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Luther, Martin

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)

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Aldous Huxley

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

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

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

10.

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

11.

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

G. K. Chesterton

12.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

13.

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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

15.

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

Addison, Joseph

16.

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

Lynn, Loretta

17.

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

18.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

19.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

20.

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

21.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

22.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

23.

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

Miller, Henry

24.

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

25.

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

Huxley, Aldous

26.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

28.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

29.

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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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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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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

Sousa, John Philip

33.

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

J. K. Rowling

34.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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 the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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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

39.

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.

40.

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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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.

42.

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

Gibbons, Billy

43.

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.

44.

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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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

48.

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

Dietz, Howard

49.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

50.

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