Motivational Quotes

Music

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

- Wilson, Colin

Best Quotes about Music

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Plato

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Pepys, Samuel

10.

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

11.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

12.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Wordsworth, William

16.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

17.

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

Davis, Miles

18.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

19.

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

Gibbons, Billy

20.

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

21.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

22.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

23.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

28.

Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

29.

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

30.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

31.

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

Huneker, James G.

32.

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

33.

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

34.

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

Wilde, Oscar

35.

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

Auden, W. H.

36.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

37.

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

38.

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)

39.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

40.

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

Dietz, Howard

41.

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

42.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

43.

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

44.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

45.

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

46.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

47.

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

48.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

49.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

50.

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