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

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

Martin Luther

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

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.

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

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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

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

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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

Gibbons, Billy

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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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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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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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 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

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You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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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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You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Lennon, John

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

Dietz, Howard

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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 a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

J. K. Rowling

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.