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

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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.

Carey, Mariah

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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

Szell, George

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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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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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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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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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

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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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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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Winter, Arthur

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Davis, Miles

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Green, Benny

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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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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 dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Newman, Ernest

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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