Music mottos to give you some room for thoughts.
A good composer does not imitate; he steals. – Igor Stravinsky
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. – George Szell
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet. – Jeffrey Tate
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. – James Taylor
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. – Paul Whiteman
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. – Oscar Wilde
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. – Ron Wood
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
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another. – Frank ZappaMusic, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. – Joseph Addison
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both. – Henri Frederic Amiel
Today, music heralds… the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore. – Jacques Attali
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. – Red Auerbach
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. – Sir Thomas Beecham
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. – Ludwig Van Beethoven
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. – Benjamin Britten
I’ve outdone anyone you can name — Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. – James Brown
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. – Mariah Carey
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. – Thomas Carlyle
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. – Mary Chapin Carpenter
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. – Pat Conroy
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. – Noel Coward
Composers shouldn’t think too much — it interferes with their plagiarism. – Howard Dietz
The high note is not the only thing. – Placido Domingo
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. – Lawrence Durrell