Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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

Luther, Martin

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Green, Benny

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gore, Tipper

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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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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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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George