Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Music

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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

Franklin, Aretha

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Lennon, John

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

Ed Gardner

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Addison, Joseph

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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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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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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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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Davis, Miles

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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