Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Johnson, Samuel

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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

Szell, George

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Woody Allen

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

13.

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)

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

Armstrong, Louis

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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

Lennon, John

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

22.

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

J. K. Rowling

23.

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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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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, 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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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

35.

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

George Eliot

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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

Wordsworth, William

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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 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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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Gore, Tipper

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Pepys, Samuel