Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

Best Quotes about Music

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

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

Schnabel, Artur

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Davis, Miles

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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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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Gore, Tipper

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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 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 is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.