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

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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

2.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

3.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

4.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

5.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

6.

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

Huneker, James G.

7.

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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

9.

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

Martin Luther

10.

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

11.

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

Dan Rather

12.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

13.

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

Huxley, Aldous

14.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

15.

A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

16.

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

Billings, Josh

17.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

18.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

19.

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

Addison, Joseph

20.

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

21.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

22.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

26.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

27.

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

28.

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

Green, Benny

29.

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

Aldous Huxley

30.

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

Lennon, John

31.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

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

Zappa, Frank

33.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

34.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

35.

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

Cocteau, Jean

36.

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

37.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

38.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

39.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

40.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

41.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

42.

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

Hugo, Victor

43.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

44.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

46.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

47.

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)

48.

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

Wordsworth, William

49.

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

50.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer