Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Zappa, Frank

Best Quotes about Music

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Brown, James

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

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aldous Huxley

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Gore, Tipper

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Miller, Henry

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Davis, Miles

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

Newman, Ernest

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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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

William Shakespeare

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Franklin, Aretha

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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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

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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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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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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