Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Music

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

Luther, Martin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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

William Shakespeare

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

10.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

11.

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

Martin Luther

12.

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Woody Allen

14.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

15.

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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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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

Huxley, Aldous

19.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

20.

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

Davis, Miles

21.

I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Wilson, Colin

28.

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

29.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Zappa, Frank

31.

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

Sousa, John Philip

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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

33.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Aldous Huxley

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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Dietz, Howard

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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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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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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