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

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Dietz, Howard

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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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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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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

J. K. Rowling

19.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Ed Gardner

22.

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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

George Eliot

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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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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Huxley, Aldous

30.

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

Sousa, John Philip

31.

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

Brown, James

32.

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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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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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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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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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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

Plutarch

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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

Green, Benny

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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

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Rattle, Simon

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