Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Plato

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

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

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

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Szell, George

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Franklin, Aretha

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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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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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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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 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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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 was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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 hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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

Kin Hubbard

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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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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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

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

Huxley, Aldous