Motivational Quotes

Music

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

- Yoko Ono

Best Quotes about Music

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Lennon, John

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Dietz, Howard

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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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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

George Eliot

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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

Newman, Ernest

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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

Plutarch

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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)