Motivational Quotes

Music

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Music

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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

Gibbons, Billy

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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

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

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

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Davis, Miles

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

Brown, James

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

18.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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

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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.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Gore, Tipper

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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

25.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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 mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

32.

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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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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

William Shakespeare

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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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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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Kin Hubbard

46.

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.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Music should never be harmless.