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

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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.

We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

10.

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

Huxley, Aldous

11.

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

Davis, Miles

12.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

13.

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

Pepys, Samuel

14.

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

15.

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

George Bernard Shaw

16.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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

18.

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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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

20.

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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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

22.

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

23.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

24.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

25.

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

Martin Luther

26.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

28.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

29.

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

Lynn, Loretta

30.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

31.

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

Winter, Arthur

32.

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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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

35.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

36.

Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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

Luther, Martin

39.

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.

40.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

41.

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

42.

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

46.

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

Schnabel, Artur

47.

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

Sousa, John Philip

48.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

49.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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