Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Pavarotti, Luciano

Best Quotes about Music

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

Gibbons, Billy

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

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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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Green, Benny

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Luther, Martin

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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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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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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 is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Woody Allen

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.