Motivational Quotes

Music

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

- Mann, Thomas

Best Quotes about Music

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

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Brown, James

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

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

Martin Luther

There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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

Brown, James

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

Szell, George

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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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 is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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

Plato

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Luther, Martin

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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

Woody Allen

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Music is the key to the female heart.