Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

Best Quotes about Music

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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

Attali, Jacques

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Tate, Jeffrey

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Davis, Miles

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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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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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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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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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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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

30.

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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

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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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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

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Miller, Henry

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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Gore, Tipper

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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