Motivational Quotes

Music

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Plato

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Woody Allen

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Green, Benny

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Plutarch

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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

Ruskin, John

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

Luther, Martin

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Lennon, John

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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Huneker, James G.

33.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Newman, Ernest

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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

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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