Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Music

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

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Dan Rather

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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

Tate, Jeffrey

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Wilson, Colin

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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 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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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

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

George Bernard Shaw

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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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

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

Davis, Miles

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Aldous Huxley

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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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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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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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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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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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