Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Sir Thomas Beecham

Best Quotes about Music

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

Martin Luther

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Billings, Josh

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Plutarch

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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 is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Lennon, John

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

Newman, Ernest

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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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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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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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

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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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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

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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

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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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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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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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.