Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Music

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

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

[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

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

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Aldous Huxley

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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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

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Wilson, Colin

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Green, Benny

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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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