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

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

Plato

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

J. K. Rowling

10.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

11.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

12.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

George Santayana

15.

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

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

17.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

18.

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

19.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

20.

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

21.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

22.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

23.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

25.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

26.

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 hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

29.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

30.

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

Pepys, Samuel

31.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

32.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

33.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

34.

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

Aldous Huxley

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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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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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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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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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 was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

41.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

42.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

43.

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

Davis, Miles

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Pierre Beaumarchais