Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Music

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

Woody Allen

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

10.

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

11.

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

Plutarch

12.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

18.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

19.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

20.

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

21.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

22.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Miller, Henry

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I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

25.

I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Lennon, John

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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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

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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.

36.

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

Addison, Joseph

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Dietz, Howard

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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. 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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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

47.

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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

49.

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

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

Martin Luther