Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Ruskin, John

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Winter, Arthur

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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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

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Kin Hubbard

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Dietz, Howard

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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

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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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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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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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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.