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

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)

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

John Erskine

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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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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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

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

18.

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.

19.

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

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

25.

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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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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

Aldous Huxley

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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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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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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

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

Kin Hubbard

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Lennon, John

39.

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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

41.

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

J. K. Rowling

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

46.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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.

Brown, James