Motivational Quotes

Music

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

- Starr, Ringo

Best Quotes about Music

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

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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

G. K. Chesterton

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

14.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Plato

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

Dietz, Howard

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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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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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

Woody Allen

21.

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Ruskin, John

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

38.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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.

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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

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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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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