Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

George Santayana

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

Huneker, James G.

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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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 is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Szell, George

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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

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

Lynn, Loretta

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Armstrong, Louis

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Martin Luther

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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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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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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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William Shakespeare

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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

Plutarch

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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

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)