Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Music

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

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

Woody Allen

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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Dan Rather

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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 key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

William Shakespeare

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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

Dietz, Howard

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You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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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 should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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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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

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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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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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.