Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

George Santayana

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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 a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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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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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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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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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

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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

Brown, James

31.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Song is the heroics of speech.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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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

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

Franklin, Aretha

44.

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

Luther, Martin

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

J. K. Rowling

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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.