Motivational Quotes

Music

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

- Whiteman, Paul

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Pepys, Samuel

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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

Huxley, Aldous

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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.

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

Newman, Ernest

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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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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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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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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Woody Allen

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

George Eliot

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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

George Santayana

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

Dan Rather

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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

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

Green, Benny

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Lynn, Loretta

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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.