Motivational Quotes

Music

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Music

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Gibbons, Billy

Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

G. K. Chesterton

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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

J. K. Rowling

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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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

18.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Attali, Jacques

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

28.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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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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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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

Luther, Martin

33.

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Billings, Josh

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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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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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