Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- George Eliot

Best Quotes about Music

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Tate, Jeffrey

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

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)

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Martin Luther

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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

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Plutarch

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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Lennon, John

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

Attali, Jacques

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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

Wordsworth, William

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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