Motivational Quotes

Music

Music should never be harmless.

- Robertson, Robbie

Best Quotes about Music

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Ed Gardner

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

William Shakespeare

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Kin Hubbard

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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

Martin Luther

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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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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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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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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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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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Billings, Josh

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Pepys, Samuel

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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