Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

- Robert Fripp

Best Quotes about Music

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Rattle, Simon

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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

Wilde, Oscar

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 shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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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 high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Gibbons, Billy

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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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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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, 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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Davis, Miles

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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

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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

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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 is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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