Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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

Ruskin, John

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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

Dietz, Howard

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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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

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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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You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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

Plato

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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