Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Pepys, Samuel

Best Quotes about Music

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Woody Allen

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

Davis, Miles

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

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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

Huneker, James G.

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Dietz, Howard

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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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

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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

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

Sousa, John Philip

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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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

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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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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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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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

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