Motivational Quotes

Music

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Music

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

Armstrong, Louis

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Brown, James

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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

Martin Luther

People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Wilson, Colin

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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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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Ruskin, John

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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 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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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Attali, Jacques

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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

Carlyle, Thomas