Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Szell, George

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

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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.

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

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

Martin Luther

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

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

Dietz, Howard

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

G. K. Chesterton

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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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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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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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

Addison, Joseph

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Plato

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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 anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Kin Hubbard

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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

Wilson, Colin