Motivational Quotes

Music

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

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

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

Winter, Arthur

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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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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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

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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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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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

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

Davis, Miles

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Sousa, John Philip

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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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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Gibbons, Billy

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Luther, Martin

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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lennon, John

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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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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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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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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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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gore, Tipper

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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