Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Music

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Gibbons, Billy

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

George Bernard Shaw

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

William Shakespeare

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

George Eliot

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

Sousa, John Philip

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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 don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Miller, Henry

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Johnson, Samuel

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

George Santayana

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Lennon, John

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

Lynn, Loretta

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Auden, W. H.

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato