Motivational Quotes

Music

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Music

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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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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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Gore, Tipper

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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

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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 vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Pepys, Samuel

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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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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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

38.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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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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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

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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.