Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Music

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

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

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.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Davis, Miles

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

John Erskine

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Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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

Armstrong, Louis

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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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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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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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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

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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

G. K. Chesterton

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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 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

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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

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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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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