Motivational Quotes

Music

It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

- Richardson, Kevin

Best Quotes about Music

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Davis, Miles

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

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

Attali, Jacques

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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

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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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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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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

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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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 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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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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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 only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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

Pierre Beaumarchais