Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Sousa, John Philip

Best Quotes about Music

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

John Erskine

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

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

George Eliot

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

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.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Gibbons, Billy

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Davis, Miles

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

Mencken, H. L.

22.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

23.

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

Pepys, Samuel

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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 hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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

Zappa, Frank

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Green, Benny

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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