Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Proverb, Zimbabwe

Best Quotes about Music

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

Rattle, Simon

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

Schnabel, Artur

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Luther, Martin

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

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

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

Ruskin, John

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

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

Ed Gardner

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Kin Hubbard

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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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

Dietz, Howard

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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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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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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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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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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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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Woody Allen

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis