Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Sir Thomas Beecham

Best Quotes about Music

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

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

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

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

J. K. Rowling

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

George Eliot

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

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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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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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Newman, Ernest

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Attali, Jacques

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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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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.

25.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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)

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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

Lennon, John

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

Dan Rather

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Addison, Joseph