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| Author | Quote | E-Mail this quote |
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| Aaron Copland | 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.'" | |
| Aristotle (384 BCE - 322 BCE) | Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul. | |
| Arthur Honegger | There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. | |
| Arturo Toscanini | Assassins! - (to his orchestra) | |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) | Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. | |
| Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989) | Life without music would be an intolerable insult. | |
| Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) | I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. | |
| Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) | Only sick music makes money today. | |
| G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) | Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. | |
| George Bernard Shaw | The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that is prolongs the life of the player. | |
| George Bernard Shaw | Let a short Act of Parliment be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties. | |
| Jimmy Durante | I hate music, especially when it's played. | |
| Joe Riggs (1913 - 1967) | Any damn fool can play the drums. - (Banjo player) | |
| Louis Armstrong (1901 - 1971) | All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. | |
| Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) | Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. | |
| Peter York | Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world. | |
| Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961) | A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. | |
| Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961) | Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. | |
| Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961) | No, but I believe I once trod in some.
- (when asked if he had ever played works by Stockhausen) | |
| Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961) | The public wants the musicians to start together and end together. They don't give a damn what happens in between. - (British symphony conductor) | |
| Stephen Millich (1941 - ) | Music is the only language that survived the Tower of Babel. | |
| Stephen Millich (1941 - ) | Rap music is irrefutable proof of global warming. | |
| Unkown | In case of Brahms, exit here. | |
| Victor Borge | The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. | |
| Victor Borge | I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't. | |
| Victor Hugo | Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. | |
| Voltaire (1694 - 1778) | Anything too stupid to be said is sung. | |
| Woody Allen | I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. |
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