Motivational Quotes

Music

Country music is three chords and the truth.

- Howard, Harlan

Best Quotes about Music

1.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

2.

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

George Bernard Shaw

3.

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

4.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

5.

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

6.

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

Wilson, Colin

7.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

8.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

9.

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

10.

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

Ruskin, John

11.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

12.

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

Hugo, Victor

13.

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

Lennon, John

14.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

15.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

18.

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

19.

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

Luther, Martin

20.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Woody Allen

22.

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

23.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

24.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

25.

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

Pepys, Samuel

26.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

27.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

28.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

29.

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

30.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

31.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

32.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

33.

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

Plato

34.

I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

35.

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

36.

Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

37.

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

38.

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

Armstrong, Louis

39.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

40.

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

41.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.