Motivational Quotes

Music

Music should never be harmless.

- Robertson, Robbie

Best Quotes about Music

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

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

10.

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

Plutarch

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

15.

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

Armstrong, Louis

16.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

17.

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

18.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

19.

I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

20.

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

21.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

25.

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

26.

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

27.

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

28.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

29.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

30.

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

33.

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

34.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

35.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

36.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

37.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

39.

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

40.

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

Auden, W. H.

41.

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

42.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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

Gore, Tipper

44.

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

45.

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