Motivational Quotes

Music

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

- Whiteman, Paul

Best Quotes about Music

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Plutarch

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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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

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

J. K. Rowling

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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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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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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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Addison, Joseph

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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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 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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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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

Wilson, Colin

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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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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

John Erskine

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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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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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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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