Motivational Quotes

Music

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Music

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

10.

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 was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

12.

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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Aldous Huxley

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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Dietz, Howard

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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Newman, Ernest

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

43.

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.