Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Music

1.

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

Cocteau, Jean

2.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

3.

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

4.

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

5.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

6.

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

Pepys, Samuel

7.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

8.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

9.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

10.

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

Brown, James

11.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

12.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

13.

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

Kin Hubbard

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

16.

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

Lynn, Loretta

17.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

18.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

20.

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

21.

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

22.

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

Luther, Martin

23.

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

Newman, Ernest

24.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

25.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

26.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

27.

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

Addison, Joseph

28.

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

Billings, Josh

29.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

30.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

31.

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

32.

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

Huneker, James G.

33.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

34.

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

35.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

37.

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

38.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

39.

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

40.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

41.

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

42.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

43.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

44.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

45.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

47.

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

48.

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

49.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

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