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

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

Dietz, Howard

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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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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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Plutarch

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Schnabel, Artur

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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