Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- John Erskine

Best Quotes about Music

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

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schnabel, Artur

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Wilde, Oscar

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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

Luther, Martin

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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

Dietz, Howard

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

J. K. Rowling

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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

Green, Benny

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Ruskin, John

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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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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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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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

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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