Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Tate, Jeffrey

Best Quotes about Music

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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

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

Tate, Jeffrey

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Armstrong, Louis

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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

Dietz, Howard

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

11.

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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Newman, Ernest

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Hugo, Victor

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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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

Plutarch

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

Zappa, Frank

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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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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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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

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

J. K. Rowling

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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'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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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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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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