Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Plato

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Brown, James

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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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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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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

William Shakespeare

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Rattle, Simon

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Luther, Martin

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

Addison, Joseph

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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

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

Pepys, Samuel

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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

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.