Motivational Quotes

Music

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Music

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

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.

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

George Santayana

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

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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

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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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Szell, George

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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