Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Pepys, Samuel

Best Quotes about Music

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

Dan Rather

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Plutarch

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Lennon, John

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

Wordsworth, William

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

William Shakespeare

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

Davis, Miles

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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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 think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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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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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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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

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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Dietz, Howard

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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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