Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Music

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Martin Luther

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

10.

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

11.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

12.

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

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

15.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

18.

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

George Santayana

19.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

20.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

21.

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

Lynn, Loretta

22.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

23.

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

Zappa, Frank

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

J. K. Rowling

28.

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

29.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

30.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

31.

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

32.

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

Green, Benny

33.

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

34.

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

35.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

36.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

37.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Kin Hubbard

40.

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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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

44.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

45.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

46.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

47.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar