Motivational Quotes

Music

I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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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

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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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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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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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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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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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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 like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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 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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Zappa, Frank

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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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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 hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Aldous Huxley

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Lennon, John