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.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Music

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

11.

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

Addison, Joseph

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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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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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

30.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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

Pepys, Samuel

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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

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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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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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

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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

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot