Motivational Quotes

Music

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

- Stravinsky, Igor

Best Quotes about Music

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Dietz, Howard

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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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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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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

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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)

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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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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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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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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

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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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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

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music is the key to the female heart.