Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

10.

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

11.

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

Luther, Martin

12.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

13.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Mencken, H. L.

16.

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

17.

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

Hugo, Victor

18.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Billings, Josh

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

Green, Benny

23.

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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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

25.

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

Szell, George

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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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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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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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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