Motivational Quotes

Music

Music should never be harmless.

- Robertson, Robbie

Best Quotes about Music

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Plato

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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

Addison, Joseph

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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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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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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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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.