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

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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

Cocteau, Jean

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

George Santayana

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

Rattle, Simon

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dietz, Howard

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Ed Gardner

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

Plutarch

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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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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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

Lennon, John

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

24.

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

Hugo, Victor

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Huxley, Aldous

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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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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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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 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 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 was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Gore, Tipper

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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

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

Woody Allen

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Zappa, Frank

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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)

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

Pepys, Samuel

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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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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Green, Benny

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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.