Motivational Quotes

Music

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Music

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

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Zappa, Frank

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Armstrong, Louis

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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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

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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. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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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 was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

William Shakespeare

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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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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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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