Motivational Quotes

Music

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

- Taylor, James

Best Quotes about Music

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

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

When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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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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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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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

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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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 movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Billings, Josh

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

Luther, Martin

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

William Shakespeare

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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 should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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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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 is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp