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

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Wordsworth, William

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Green, Benny

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

Luther, Martin

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Miller, Henry

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aldous Huxley

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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

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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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William Shakespeare

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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

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Davis, Miles

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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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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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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 wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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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

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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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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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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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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

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

Ruskin, John

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

William Shakespeare

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante