Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Sousa, John Philip

Best Quotes about Music

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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

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

Franklin, Aretha

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Hugo, Victor

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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 often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Newman, Ernest

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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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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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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, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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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.

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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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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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

24.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

36.

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Green, Benny

39.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kin Hubbard

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel