Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Woody Allen

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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.

I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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

Schnabel, Artur

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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 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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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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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lennon, John

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, 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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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sousa, John Philip

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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

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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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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Luther, Martin

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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