Motivational Quotes

Music

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

- Szell, George

Best Quotes about Music

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Aldous Huxley

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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

William Shakespeare

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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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

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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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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

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

Dan Rather

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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

Davis, Miles

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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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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Mencken, H. L.

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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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