Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Music

The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Newman, Ernest

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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 vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Gore, Tipper

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Aldous Huxley

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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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 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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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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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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[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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Billings, Josh