Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

10.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

11.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

12.

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

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

Dietz, Howard

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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Miller, Henry

19.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

20.

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

J. K. Rowling

21.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Plutarch

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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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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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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

28.

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

29.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

35.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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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

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

46.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.