Motivational Quotes

Music

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

- Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Best Quotes about Music

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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

J. K. Rowling

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

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

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

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

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

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

William Shakespeare

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

Huneker, James G.

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Aldous Huxley

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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

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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 only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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

Attali, Jacques

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

Dietz, Howard

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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. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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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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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.