Motivational Quotes

Music

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

- Dvorak, Antonin

Best Quotes about Music

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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

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)

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

10.

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

11.

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

Oscar Wilde

12.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

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

14.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

15.

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

Huneker, James G.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

19.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

20.

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

Wilson, Colin

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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

26.

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

George Santayana

27.

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

28.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

29.

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

Ed Gardner

30.

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

John Erskine

31.

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

32.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

33.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

34.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

35.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

36.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

37.

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

G. K. Chesterton

38.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

39.

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

40.

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

41.

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

42.

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

Pepys, Samuel

43.

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