Motivational Quotes

Music

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

- Edgar Wilson Nye

Best Quotes about Music

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

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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

J. K. Rowling

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

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

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Szell, George

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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

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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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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

15.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Luther, Martin

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

18.

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

Wilson, Colin

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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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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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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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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

29.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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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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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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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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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Martin Luther

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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

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Lennon, John

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Johnson, Samuel

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