Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

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

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

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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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

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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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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

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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

Gore, Tipper

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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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

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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

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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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

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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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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

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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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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

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

Huneker, James G.

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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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