Motivational Quotes

Music

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

- Packard, Vance

Best Quotes about Music

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

William Shakespeare

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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

Luther, Martin

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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

Wilson, Colin

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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

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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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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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 should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. 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

41.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Plato

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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 like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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