Motivational Quotes

Music

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Music

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

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Woody Allen

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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 good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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

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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

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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

Franklin, Aretha

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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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I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.