Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Zappa, Frank

Best Quotes about Music

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Wordsworth, William

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

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

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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

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

Woody Allen

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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

Huneker, James G.

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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

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gibbons, Billy

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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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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

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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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

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

Franklin, Aretha

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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

Ruskin, John

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Dan Rather

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Martin Luther

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