Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Huneker, James G.

Best Quotes about Music

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

George Bernard Shaw

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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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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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Kin Hubbard

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

George Eliot

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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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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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Armstrong, Louis

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.