Motivational Quotes

Music

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

- Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Best Quotes about Music

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

George Eliot

It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

10.

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

11.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

12.

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

13.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

14.

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

15.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

16.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

17.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

18.

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

19.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

J. K. Rowling

22.

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

23.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

24.

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

Newman, Ernest

25.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

26.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

27.

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

28.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

29.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

30.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

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

32.

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

G. K. Chesterton

33.

Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

34.

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

Sousa, John Philip

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

40.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

41.

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

42.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

43.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

44.

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

45.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

46.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

47.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

48.

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

Wilson, Colin

49.

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

Aldous Huxley

50.

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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