Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Gore, Tipper

Best Quotes about Music

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

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

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Franklin, Aretha

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

10.

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

11.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

12.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

13.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

14.

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

Pepys, Samuel

15.

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

Hugo, Victor

16.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Tate, Jeffrey

18.

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

19.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

20.

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

21.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

22.

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

Cocteau, Jean

23.

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

Gibbons, Billy

24.

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

25.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

26.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Sousa, John Philip

31.

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

Wilson, Colin

32.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

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

34.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

35.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

36.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

37.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

38.

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

Gore, Tipper

39.

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)

40.

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

41.

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

42.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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

44.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

45.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

46.

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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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

48.

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Huxley, Aldous

49.

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 verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.