Motivational Quotes

Music

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

- Whiteman, Paul

Best Quotes about Music

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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

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)

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

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

Green, Benny

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Addison, Joseph

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Dietz, Howard

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