Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Music

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Schnabel, Artur

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

Davis, Miles

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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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I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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 the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Woody Allen

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Addison, Joseph

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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 should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Gore, Tipper

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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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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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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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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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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