Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Martin Luther

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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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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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Green, Benny

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

Plutarch

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Szell, George

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Aldous Huxley

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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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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)

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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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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

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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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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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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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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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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot