Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Music

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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

Schnabel, Artur

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Tate, Jeffrey

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

10.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

12.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

13.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

14.

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

15.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

18.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

19.

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)

20.

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

Franklin, Aretha

21.

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

29.

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

30.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

31.

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

Lennon, John

32.

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

Sousa, John Philip

33.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

34.

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

35.

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.

Homer

36.

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

Huxley, Aldous

37.

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

Aldous Huxley

38.

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

Huneker, James G.

39.

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

George Eliot

40.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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

William Shakespeare

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

49.

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair