Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

10.

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

Armstrong, Louis

11.

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

12.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Luther, Martin

14.

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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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

16.

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

Lennon, John

17.

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

Davis, Miles

18.

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

Johnson, Samuel

19.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

20.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

30.

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

31.

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

George Eliot

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

38.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Pepys, Samuel

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