Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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

Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

10.

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

11.

I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

12.

I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

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

Lynn, Loretta

15.

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

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

18.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

19.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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

22.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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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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

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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

27.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

28.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

29.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Luther, Martin

31.

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

Attali, Jacques

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Plutarch

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

43.

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Miller, Henry

47.

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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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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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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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