Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Proverb, Zimbabwe

Best Quotes about Music

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

Green, Benny

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

Luther, Martin

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

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

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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 most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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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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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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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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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Plutarch

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

Dietz, Howard

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Schnabel, Artur

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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

Woody Allen

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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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

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De