Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is the key to the female heart.

- Seume, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Music

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

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

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

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

George Eliot

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

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Pepys, Samuel

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Hugo, Victor

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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 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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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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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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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

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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