Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Schnabel, Artur

Best Quotes about Music

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

Lennon, John

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Luther, Martin

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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 wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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

William Shakespeare

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

Green, Benny

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

22.

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

Franklin, Aretha

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

29.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

30.

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

Armstrong, Louis

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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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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Winter, Arthur

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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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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

41.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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

Dan Rather

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.