Motivational Quotes

Music

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

- Starr, Ringo

Best Quotes about Music

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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

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

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

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

10.

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

Huxley, Aldous

11.

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

Zappa, Frank

12.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

13.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

14.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

17.

Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

18.

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

19.

Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

20.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

22.

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

Oscar Wilde

23.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

24.

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

Davis, Miles

25.

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

Martin Luther

26.

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

Ed Gardner

27.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

28.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

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

30.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

31.

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)

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Lynn, Loretta

39.

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

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

42.

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

Mencken, H. L.

43.

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

Woody Allen

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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