Motivational Quotes

Music

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

- Jackson, Michael

Best Quotes about Music

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

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

George Eliot

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

J. K. Rowling

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

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

Lennon, John

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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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

11.

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

Dietz, Howard

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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

15.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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

Brown, James

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

21.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

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

24.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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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

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

30.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

34.

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 is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

38.

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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Szell, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Davis, Miles

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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

Luther, Martin

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

48.

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.

49.

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Miller, Henry