Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Music

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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

Luther, Martin

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

Winter, Arthur

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

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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

11.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

12.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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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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A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Ed Gardner

19.

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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Franklin, Aretha

23.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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

Armstrong, Louis

26.

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

27.

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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Kin Hubbard

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

36.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

J. K. Rowling

39.

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

Brown, James

40.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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

45.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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 of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.