Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

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

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Luther, Martin

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

Martin Luther

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Plutarch

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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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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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

William Shakespeare

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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

George Eliot

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Zappa, Frank

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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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