Motivational Quotes

Music

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

- Gallagher, Liam

Best Quotes about Music

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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

Miller, Henry

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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

William Shakespeare

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

10.

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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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Newman, Ernest

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

George Eliot

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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

28.

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

Attali, Jacques

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

Hugo, Victor

38.

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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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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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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

Lennon, John