Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Huneker, James G.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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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

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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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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

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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 is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Sousa, John Philip

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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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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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

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