Motivational Quotes

Music

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.

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Davis, Miles

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

George Eliot

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

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

Ruskin, John

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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

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

John Erskine

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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.

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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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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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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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You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

24.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

George Santayana

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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

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

Wilson, Colin

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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 causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Zappa, Frank

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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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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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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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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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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

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