Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about 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

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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

G. K. Chesterton

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Ruskin, John

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

Aldous Huxley

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

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

10.

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

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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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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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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

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I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Franklin, Aretha

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Mencken, H. L.

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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

Huneker, James G.

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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

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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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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

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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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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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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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Music should never be harmless.