Motivational Quotes

Music

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

- Virgil Thomson

Best Quotes about Music

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

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

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Dietz, Howard

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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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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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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

William Shakespeare

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Lennon, John

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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

Huxley, Aldous

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Miller, Henry

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Luther, Martin

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