Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Attali, Jacques

Best Quotes about Music

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

Lynn, Loretta

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Brown, James

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

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

Armstrong, Louis

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

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

10.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

11.

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

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Brown, James

16.

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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

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

19.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

20.

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

Lennon, John

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

Tate, Jeffrey

22.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

23.

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

Addison, Joseph

25.

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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

27.

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

Franklin, Aretha

28.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

29.

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

Plato

30.

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

31.

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

Gibbons, Billy

32.

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

Cocteau, Jean

34.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

35.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Plutarch

38.

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

Huneker, James G.

39.

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

J. K. Rowling

40.

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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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

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

44.

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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.