Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ruskin, John

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

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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

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

10.

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

John Erskine

11.

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

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Brown, James

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

17.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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

Kin Hubbard

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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

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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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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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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Armstrong, Louis

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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

Pepys, Samuel

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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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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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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Addison, Joseph

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Woody Allen

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.