Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

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

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Lennon, John

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Billings, Josh

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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.

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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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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

22.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Plutarch

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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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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Woody Allen

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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.

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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

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

Schnabel, Artur

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

Wilde, Oscar

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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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