Motivational Quotes

Music

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

- Packard, Vance

Best Quotes about Music

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Franklin, Aretha

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Gibbons, Billy

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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'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

11.

There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Plato

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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Aldous Huxley

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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

25.

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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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 spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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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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

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

Addison, Joseph

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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.

33.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Miller, Henry

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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