Motivational Quotes

Music

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

- Mascagni, Pietro

Best Quotes about Music

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Brown, James

10.

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

11.

[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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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

15.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Kin Hubbard

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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

32.

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

Luther, Martin

33.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

34.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Miller, Henry

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

Armstrong, Louis

44.

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

Gore, Tipper

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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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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

47.

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

Newman, Ernest

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Addison, Joseph

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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.