Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Armstrong, Louis

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

12.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

13.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

17.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

18.

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

Huneker, James G.

19.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

20.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

21.

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

G. K. Chesterton

25.

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

Lennon, John

26.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Addison, Joseph

28.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

29.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

30.

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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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

32.

People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

33.

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

36.

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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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

38.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

41.

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

Cocteau, Jean

43.

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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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