Motivational Quotes

Music

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

- Schnabel, Artur

Best Quotes about Music

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

George Eliot

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Brown, James

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

Ed Gardner

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

Plutarch

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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

Ruskin, John

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

23.

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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

Pepys, Samuel

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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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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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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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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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

Aldous Huxley

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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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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, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

John Erskine

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Huxley, Aldous

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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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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

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Auden, W. H.

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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.