| Citat |
Sagt av |
| Abbakus: Räkneapparat för att beräkna taktarten i "Money, money, money". | Dragbasun |
| Allt som jag vill är att din hjärna står still för en dum, ful, korkad men skön patetisk sång om kärlek. | Pex Tufvesson (1974-) |
| Anledningen till att fiolspelarna alltid är bra kompisar med banjospelaren är att utan honom vore fiolen det mest hatade instrumentet i orkestern. | Aaron Copland (1900-1990) |
| Att fela är omänskligt, sa Gud och uppfann Tuban. | Aaron Copland (1900-1990) |
| Att lyssna på Ralph Vaughan Williams femte symfoni är som att stirra på en ko i fyrtiofem minuter. | Aaron Copland (1900-1990) |
| Att lära sig njuta av musik genom att läsa om den, är som att älska via e-mail | Luciano Pavarotti (1935-) |
| Att personer som spelar säckpipa alltid går runt beror på att de vill komma bort från oljudet. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Att skriva artiklar om musik är som att dansa om arkitektur. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Av all musik tycker jag bäst om Wagners. Den är så högljudd att man kan prata hela tiden utan att andra hör vad man säger. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Av allt stoj, är musik den minst obehagliga. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Av Mozart kan man lära sig använda knappa medel: maximal effekt med minimal ansträngning. | Hans Werner Henze |
| Den enda skillnaden mellan en saxofon och en motorsåg är greppet. | Aasmund Brynildsen (1917-1974) |
| Den ideala operaregissören: Mitt koncept är orubbligt, och passar det inte så har jag andra! | Aasmund Brynildsen (1917-1974) |
| Den stora musiken är bara ett preludium till stillheten | Aasmund Brynildsen (1917-1974) |
| Den tunnaste strängen ger den finaste musiken. | Norsk Ordtak |
| Det behövs bara en basist för att skruva i en lampa, men gitarristen måste visa honom först. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Det behövs ingen trummis för att skruva i en lampa, de har maskiner som gör sånt nuförtiden. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Det enda en musiker vill är att man ska vara alldeles stum, medan man själv gärna hade varit alldeles döv. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Det enda en trumpetare behöver använda som barnbegränsningsmetod är hans personlighet. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Det finns ett släktskap och ett inre förhållande mellan själen och ton och rytm. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Det finns ingen lycklig musik; jag har i varje fall aldrig hört någon. | Svend Asmussen |
| Det finns ingen musik som kan kallas sakral eller profan. Om man ger "Tordennskjold" en sakral text blir det en religiös sång. Det är ju så Frälsningsarmen arbetar. | Svend Asmussen |
| Det finns inget svårare än att tala om musik. | Camille Saint-Saens |
| Det finns många melodier i fiolen om man bara kan hitta dem. | Dansk Ordtak |
| Det jag är missnöjd med slänger jag i toan. Har du någon gång prövat att spola ned en violinkonsert? | Arne Nordheim (1931-) |
| Det värsta med att vara bög är all jävla discomusik man tvingas stå ut med. | Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) |
| Det är synd att skylla på pianisten när inte pianot är stämt. | Rene Coty |
| Dikter kan bli som ett trafikbuller man inte hör. | Victor Borge (1909-2000) |
| Dirigenten skakar musikernas händer först när alla är klara att gå hem. | Victor Borge (1909-2000) |
| Dit solens strålar inte når, dit når dock tonerna. | Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) |
| Drabbas man inte av jazzbacillen så drabbas man av Bachterier! | Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) |
| Dåliga artister lånar. Bra artister stjäler. | Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) |
| Där orden tryter, pratar musiken. | Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) |
| Efter att ha spelat Chopin känns det som om jag hade gråtit över synder jag aldrig begått och sörjt tragedier som inte är mina. Musiken tycks alltid locka fram sådana känslor. Den skapar ett förflutet som man har varit okunnig om och fyller en med sorger som legat dolda för ens tårar. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| En amatör är en allmän plåga som förväxlar sin ambition med sitt kunnande. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| En enda skön ton är vackrare än ett långt tal. | Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) |
| Franz Schubert tjänade aldrig särskilt mycket pengar. Hade han inte skrivit musik, skulle säkert ingen ha hört talas om honom. | Roger Allen |
| Fördelen med den moderna musiken är att man inte kan vissla den. | Roger Allen |
| Förr rakade man sig när man skulle höra Beethoven, nu hör man Beethoven när man ska raka sig. | Peter Bamm |
| Gummiband: ett gäng musiker som tror på säker sex. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Helvetet är fullt av musikaliska amatörer. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Himlen har dragspel till alla. | Svenskt ordspråk |
| Himlen har samplers till alla. | Pex Tufvesson (1974-) |
| Hon sitter där med sitt klaver och bygger upp en katedral av kärlek och ande | Harald Sverdrup (1923-1992) |
| Hoppas att jag aldrig blir så senil att jag vill stå på en operascen igen. | Birgit Nilsson (1918-2005) |
| Hur kan man inte tycka om Britney Spears? | Lindsay Lohan (1986-) |
| Hörda melodier är ljuva, men de ohörda är ljuvare. | John Keats (1795-1821) |
| I all musik hörs den melodi som inte kan uttryckas i noter: dödens melodi, som är komponerat speciellt för oss. | Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961) |
| Ibland spelar jag musik av samtida kompositörer och av två skäl. För det första för att avskräcka komponisten från att skriva mera, och för det andra för att påminna mig om hur mycket jag tycker om Beethoven. | Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987) |
| Ingen är så rå, så hård och full av ondska att ej musiken ändrar hans natur. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Jag får träna trumslagning hemma också, bara det inte hörs. | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) |
| Jag föraktar den värld som inte anser att musik är en högre uppenbarelse än all visdom och filosofi. | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) |
| Jag gillar sydamerikanska rytmer. - Samba här. | Victor Borge (1909-2000) |
| Jag har aldrig hört en så löjlig text, sån fånig sentimentalitet, såna upprepningar, sån oinspirerad melodi. Gosse, vi har funnit en hit! | Victor Borge (1909-2000) |
| Jag har ingenting emot musik som utövas inne, bara den inövas ute. | Victor Borge (1909-2000) |
| Jag har inte en endaste vit tangent på mitt piano, min elefant rökte för mycket! | Victor Borge (1909-2000) |
| Jag kan bara två melodier. Den ena är "Yankee Doodle", den andra är inte den. | Sten Broman (1902-1983) |
| Jag komponerar inte bara musik, jag komponerar hela mitt liv. Resor, umgänge, kläder, mat. | Sten Broman (1902-1983) |
| Jag skrev en låt, men eftersom jag inte kan noter så vet jag inte hur den låter. När jag lyssnar på radion så tänker jag ibland "det är kanske den här som jag har skrivit!". | Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) |
| Jag älskar Wagner, men jag föredrar den musiken katten frambringar när den hänger med svansen ut ur ett fönster och försöker hålla sig fast i glasrutan med klorna. | Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) |
| Jazz: Fem musiker som bestämt sig för att spela en varsin låt... samtidigt. | Niklas Rådström |
| Likheten mellan att spela ett vackert solo på altoboe och kissa på sig är att man får en varm känsla, men ingen annan märker det. | Niklas Rådström |
| Likheten mellan blixten och en fiolspelares fingrar är att de aldrig slår ner två gånger på samma ställe. | Niklas Rådström |
| Liten flicka till skotte som spelar säckpipa: "Om ni släpper den, kanske den slutar skrika." | Niklas Rådström |
| Livsrytmen är oftast taktlös. | Niklas Rådström |
| Ljud uppstår när en tystnad plötsligt bryts. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Ljudets hastighet är som bekant mycket mindre än ljusets. Saker man säger till ungarna när de är i tonåren når ofta inte fram förrän de är i fyrtioårsåldern. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Man har sagt mig att Wagners musik är bättre än den låter. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Milli Vanilli kunde ha blivit den första grupp att vinna Grammyn för "mest lovande nya musikgrupp" två år i rad. | Bob Marley (1945-1981) |
| Min musik kommer leva vidare för alltid. Kanske bara en idiot säger något sådant, men när jag kan min fakta så presenterar jag den. Min musik kommer leva för evigt. | Bob Marley (1945-1981) |
| Musik - sköljer bort dammet från vardagslivet. | Ivar Wallensteen (1917-) |
| Musik bör finnas i varje hem, utom i grannlägenheten. | Ivar Wallensteen (1917-) |
| Musik fyller oändligheten mellan två själar. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Musik fyller oändligheten mellan två själar. Detta dövas av våra dagliga vanors dimma. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Musik fyller oändligheten mellan två själar. Detta har dämpats av våra dagliga aktiviteters dimma. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Musik fördunklar intellektet, men renar hjärtat. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Musik ger själ till universum, den ger sinnet vingar, fantasin flykt, allvaret charm. Den ger glädje och liv till allt. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Musik kan framföras var som helst, är osynlig och luktar inte. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Musik och rytm hittar sin egen väg in till själens hemliga skrymslen. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Musik renar själen från vardagens damm. | Berthold Auerbach (1812-1882) |
| Musik ska byggas utav glädje, av glädje bygger man musik. Musik, det får ni ändå medge, gör glädjen ännu mera glädjerik. | Lill Lindfors (1940-) |
| Musik ska inte bara klinga vackert, musikernas ansikten ska också avspeglalycka. | Herbert von Karajan |
| Musik ska slå eld ur mannens hjärta, och bringa tårar ur kvinnans ögon. | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) |
| Musik skapar en form av njutning vilken den mänskliga naturen inte klarar sig utan. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| Musik till middagen är en förolämpning både mot kocken och musikern. | Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| Musik uttrycker det man varken kan se eller berätta. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| Musik är bara kärlek som söker ord. | Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) |
| Musik är det enda språk som inte behöver översättas. | Berthold Auerbach (1812-1882) |
| Musik är en högre uppenbarelse än all klokhet och filosofi. | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) |
| Musik är en högre uppenbarelse än all visshet och filosofi. | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) |
| Musik är ett meningslöst oljud om den inte träffar ett mottagande sinne. | Lev (Leo) Nikolajevitsj Tolstoj (1828-1910) |
| Musik är känslans stenografi | Lev (Leo) Nikolajevitsj Tolstoj (1828-1910) |
| Musik är människans sant gemensamma språk. | Karl Julius Weber (1767-1832) |
| Musik är själens tankar | Leo Tolstoj (1828-1910) |
| Musik är som knarret i paradisets portar | Iransk Ordtak |
| Musik: disciplinerat oväsen. | Peter Holl |
| Musik: oväsen någon har copyright på. | Peter Holl |
| Musiken banar väg för kärleken. | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| Musiken börjar där orden upphör. | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| Musiken gör en svag på ett sätt som gör en stark. | Benny Andersen |
| Musiken är det enda språk som inte behöver översättas. | Berthold Auerbach (1812-1882) |
| Musiken är det enda världsspråk som inte behöver bli översatt | Berthold Auerbach (1812-1882) |
| Musiken är ett glashus på sluttningen där stenarna flyger, stenarna rullar. Och stenarna rullar tvärs igenom men varje ruta förblir hel. | Tomas Tranströmer |
| Musiker går aldrig i pension, de drar sig tillbaka när musiken i dem har tagit slut. | Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) |
| Musiker går inte i pension, de slutar spela när det inte finns någon musik kvar inom dem. | Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) |
| Musikläraren kom troget en gång i veckan för att bygga en bro över den enorma klyftan mellan Dorothy och Chopin. | George Ade (1866-1944) |
| Människan kan ha tre olika kön: män, kvinnor och tenorer. | Arturo Toscanini (till sina musiker) |
| Människor är som musikinstrument vars toner bestäms av vem som rör dem. | Arturo Toscanini (till sina musiker) |
| När folk hör god musik börjar de längta efter det som de aldrig har haft och aldrig kan få. | Arturo Toscanini (till sina musiker) |
| När jag är död ska jag återvända till jorden som dörrvaktare i en bordell och då ska jag inte släppa in en enda av er. | Arturo Toscanini (till sina musiker) |
| När ord försvinner, börjar musiken. | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| Näst små barn och blommor är musik det djävligaste jag vet. | August Strindberg (1849-1912) |
| Och så var det rockgruppen som mot slutet av sin bana blev kantband. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Om du inte tycker om din ovän, så ge trumpeter till hans barn. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Om en man inte håller samma takt som sina kamrater beror det kanske på att han hör en annan trumslagare. Låt honom gå till den musik han hör, oavsett rytm och hörbarhet. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Om jag fick leva om mitt liv skulle jag ägna mig åt musik. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Om man hör dålig musik, är det ens plikt att dränka den i konversation. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Om musik är kärleks föda, spela på! | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Omslagspappret larmar ofta så att det överröstar gåvan det rymmer. | E. Y. Harburg (1896-1981) |
| Ord får dig att tänka en tanke. Musik får dig att känna en känsla. En sång får dig att känna en tanke. | E. Y. Harburg (1896-1981) |
| Ork-Ester: världens starkaste och mest musikaliska kvinna. | Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) |
| Pianister växer ofta på bredden, men sällan på Haydn... | Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) |
| Pianospelet, en dans med mänskliga fingrar. | Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) |
| Popmusik: musik som är impopulär hos äldre. | Robert Naur |
| Ravels "Bolero" är samlag för symfoniorkester. | Robert Naur |
| Ringo Starr: de ögonsjukas favoritartist. | Frank Zappa (1940-1993) |
| Rock-journalism är människor som inte kan skriva som intervjuar folk som inte kan prata inför människor som inte kan läsa. | Frank Zappa (1940-1993) |
| Samplern är ett helt perfekt instrument eftersom jag själv är helt utan talent. Jag stjäler det andra har gjort för att då gör andras musik att jag tjänar mig rik. | Pex Tufvesson (1974-) |
| Sannerligen, det skulle finnas anledningar till att bli galen, om det inte vore för musiken. | Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) |
| Skillnaden mellan en cello och en likkista är att likkistan har liket inuti. | Victor Borge (1909-2000) |
| Skillnaden mellan en violin och en trampolin är att man tar av sig skorna innan man hoppar på en trampolin. | Victor Borge (1909-2000) |
| Skillnaden mellan en violin och en viola är att en viola brinner längre. | Victor Borge (1909-2000) |
| Skillnaden mellan ett ankare och en banjo är att du knyter ett snöre i ankaret innan du kastar det överbord. | Charlie Parker (1920-1955) |
| Somliga människor talar bara för att de finner ljud lättare att handskas med än tystnad. | Charlie Parker (1920-1955) |
| Spela inte saxofon. Låt den spela dig. | Charlie Parker (1920-1955) |
| Spriten löser inga problem, men det gör inte musiken heller | Sir Thomas Beecham (1897-1961) |
| Stor musik går in i örat med lätthet och lämnar minnet med svårighet. Magisk musik lämnar aldrig minnet. | Sir Thomas Beecham (1897-1961) |
| Säckpipa: knöla in katten under armen. Dra i benen och tugga på svansen. | Guy Lombardo (1902-1977) |
| Sötaste musiken den här sidan av himlen. | Guy Lombardo (1902-1977) |
| Tenorer sjunger ljust, basar sjunger djupt. Baritonen sjunger vackert. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Till tonfisk bör man helst ha ett musicerande vin. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Tänk vad musikalisk den pojken är, först spelade han saxofon och nu spelar han alt... | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Uppspelt kompositör glad. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Utan musik vore livet ett misstag | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Vackra visor är inte långa och vackra flickor inte många. | Hagge Geigert (1925-) |
| Vad vi har för slags musik? Jodå, vi har båda sorterna, Country och Western. | Hagge Geigert (1925-) |
| Vad är det värsta du kan föreställa dig? - En munspelstrio. | Hagge Geigert (1925-) |
| Varje fågel sjunger enligt sin näbb. | Nordisk Ordtak |
| Varje förändring av Griegs musik är till det bättre | Thor Mann |
| Vi lever i en skakande period av musikhistorien: avgrunden mellan musikerna och publiken har så småningom breddats till en ocean. | Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) |
| Vi spelade Tjajkovskij hela natten, men det blev oavgjort. | Anni-Frid Lyngstad (1945-) |
| Vilken musik jag gillar beror till stor del av min sinnesstämning. | Anni-Frid Lyngstad (1945-) |
| Violin: ett instrument som kittlar örat genom att gnida en hästsvans mot en katts inälvor. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| Vår ordinarie gitarrist Harald Pålsson är inte med ikväll. Han har fått kompledigt. | Kenneth Fredriksson (1900-) |
| Wagners musik är bättre än den låter. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Næst efter tavshed er det, der er nærmest ved at kunne udtrykke det uudsigelige, musikken | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Dirigenten har den fordel, at han ikke ser tilhørerne. | Andre Kostelanetz (1901-) |
| Moderne jazz: det er når en vogn med pattegrise og en vogn med mælkejunger støder sammen - og Sam Finkelstein! | Dirch Passer |
| Carl Nielsen gav os en gave. Den har vi alle samme adgang til ligesom til fuglenes sang og til alfabetet. | Erik Clausen |
| Den moderne musik er vidunderlig. Det er umuligt at spille en eneste tone falsk. | Fred Astaire (1899-1987) |
| Helvede er fuld af amatørmusikere. Musikken er de fordømtes brændevin. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Giv mig en vasketøjsliste, så skal jeg sætte musik til den. | Gioacchini Antonio Rossini |
| Militær retfærdighed er til retfærdighed, hvad militær musik er til musik. | Groucho Marx (1890-1977) |
| Hvor ord svigter, taler musikken | Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) |
| I China veed Du jo nok er Keiseren en Chineser | Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) |
| Musik er det eneste sprog, på hvilket man ikke kan sige noget tarveligt eller hånligt. | John Erskine (1879-1951) |
| Musik er allemandseje. Det er kun udgivere, som mener, at mennesker ejer det. | John Lennon (1940-1980) |
| Når aber kan spille klaver, hvorfor skal mennesker så ikke synge dertil? | John Lennon (1940-1980) |
| Jeg er ligeglad med, om man kalder det, jeg spiller, for jazz eller swing. Det lyder ikke anderledes af den grund. | Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) |
| Der er ingen regel, som ikke må brydes for at skabe noget bedre og smukkere. | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) |
| Musikere har altid kun det ønske, at man er absolut stum, mens man selv kun har det ønske at være absolut døv. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Jeg spørger ofte mig selv, hvad der ville være sket, hvis Beethoven havde haft et af vore moderne høreapparater. | Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) |
| Musik giver universet en sjæl, den giver sindet vinger, fantasien flugt, alvoren charme, og den giver munterhed og liv til alt | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Den, der vil være rigtig musiker, må også kunne komponere et menukort. | Richard Strauss (1864-1949) |
| Aber kan ikke synge, - men de forsøger det heller ikke. | Robert Lembke |
| Den moderne musiks fortrin er, at man ikke kan fløjte den. | Roger Allen |
| Men nu er det jo fortsat sådan, mine damer og herrer, at på en aften, hvor det rigtigt kører, så er der stadigvæk ikke noget, der kommer bare i nærheden af dét at spille rockmusik. | Steffen Brandt |
| Det er besynderligt, at den allervildeste musik udføres på en tam-tam! | Robert Storm Petersen (1882-1949) |
| To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. | Aaron Copland (1900-1990) |
| Music, the mosaic of the air | Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) |
| Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music | Angela Monet |
| There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead | Arthur Honegger (1982-1955) |
| The public doesn't want new music: the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead. | Arthur Honegger (1982-1955) |
| Music is the melody whose text is the world. | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever | Arthur Sullivan |
| Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf | Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) |
| If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice. | Benny Goodman (1909-) |
| Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior | Boethius |
| Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make. | David Lee Roth (1954-) |
| Music is the soundtrack of your life. | Dick Clark (1929-) |
| I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds. | Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993) |
| When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. | Edgard Watson Howe |
| Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's a really stupid thing to want to do | Elvis Costello (1954-) |
| I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play. | Eugene Ormandy (1899-) |
| Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. | Ezra Pound (1885-1972) |
| When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely | Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) |
| Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music | Frank Capra (1897-1991) |
| Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid | Frank Zappa (1940-1993) |
| "I'm just a musical prostitute, really." | Freddie Mercury (1946-) |
| Music is an outburst of the soul. | Frederick Delius (1862-1934) |
| Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. | G. Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) |
| Music is the vernacular of the human soul | Geoffrey Latham |
| I think the popular music has gone truly weird. It's either cutesy-wutesy or it's hard, nasty stuff. It's good that this has life again with the youth. | George Harrison (1943-2001) |
| Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. | Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) |
| Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world. | Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872) |
| The conductor must make it possible to eliminate himself in the music. If the orchestra feels him doing that, then everything will go well. | Giuseppe Sinopoli (1946-) |
| If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. | Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) |
| Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously | Henry Miller (1891-1980) |
| Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit | Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) |
| The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. | Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (1939-) |
| The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament. | Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) |
| The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending | Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) |
| Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. | Isaac Stern (1920-2001) |
| The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be. | Jack Brymer (1915-) |
| It happens very rarely, but when it happens it's worth waiting for, that the instrument becomes part of your body. | Jack Brymer (1915-) |
| Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world. | Jane Seymour (1951-) |
| Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. | Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) |
| I hate music, especially when it's played. | Jimmy Durante (1893-1980) |
| The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) |
| It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself. | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) |
| Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing | John Erskine (1879-1951) |
| Music is the medicine of the mind | John Logan |
| We're dirty pop. It's a trend now, but we were the first ones to do it! | Justin Timberlake (1981-) |
| We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you know? And it was such a turnaround, I guess it caught people by surprise. | Karen Carpenter (1950-1983) |
| No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery. | Kenneth Miller |
| Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living | Kirke Mecham |
| Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. | Laurie Anderson (1947-) |
| Music is only love looking for words | Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) |
| 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. | Lewis Thomas (1913-1993) |
| Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. | Marcel Marceau (1923-) |
| Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power. | Marcel Marceau (1923-) |
| Music, not sex, got me aroused. | Marvin Gaye (1939-1984) |
| Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. | Mary Kay Ash (1915-2001) |
| Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions. | Mary Webb |
| Music is the soul of language. | Max Heindel |
| For me, music and life are all about style. | Miles Davis (1926-1991) |
| The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of | Ned Rorem (1923-) |
| 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, Jr. (1841-1935) |
| Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. | Pablo Casals (1876-1973) |
| For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again. | Paula Cole (1968-) |
| Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul | Paul Whiteman (1890-1967) |
| Jazz is the folk music of the machine age | Paul Whiteman (1890-1967) |
| Modern music is as dangerous as cocaine | Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) |
| Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond | Robert A. Schumann (1810-1856) |
| In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of. | Robert A. Schumann (1810-1856) |
| If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place. | Robert A. Schumann (1810-1856) |
| Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. | Robert Browning (1812-1889) |
| Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy | Robert Burton (1577-1640) |
| Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence | Robert Fripp (1945-) |
| Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music | Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-) |
| Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart. | Shinichi Suzuki (1898-1998) |
| Music is love in search of a word. | Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954) |
| Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. | Sir Thomas Beecham (1897-1961) |
| One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. | Stephen Sondheim (1930-) |
| It's The Mourning Show. Is it true that the theme song is going to be "Taps"? | Steve Friedman (1946-) |
| I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter. | Tommy Cooper (1922-1984) |
| It's better to burn out, then to fade away. | Tom Petty (1950-) |
| Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music | Tom Sims |
| Music is spiritual. The music business is not. | Van Morrison (1945-) |
| I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down. | Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) |
| Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. | Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) |
| Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) |
| Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous | Lord Yehudi Menuhin |
| When the music changes, so does the dance | African Proverb |
| Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper. | Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) |
| Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music. | Allan Bloom |
| I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone. | Aretha Franklin (1942-) |
| 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. | Billy Joel (1949-) |
| My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. | Bob Marley (1945-1981) |
| Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around. | Bruce Springsteen (1949-) |
| I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison. | Cameron Diaz (1972-) |
| Silence is more musical than any song. | Christina G. Rossetti (1830-1894) |
| Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature | Chuang Tzu |
| Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. | Claude deBussy (1862-1918) |
| Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man | E. M. Forster (1879-1970) |
| Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. | Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) |
| Without music, life would be an error. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. | Henri Matisse (1869-1954) |
| Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Music is the universal language of mankind | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) |
| Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century. | J. Russell Lynes (1910-1991) |
| Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) |
| Music is a means of Rapid Transportation | John Cage (1912-1992) |
| Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation | John Cage (1912-1992) |
| Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) |
| Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) |
| Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) |
| Music is what I love and it's what I feel and it's in me and to know that I can do something that I enjoy and hopefully bring some enjoyment to other people through what I do is an incrediable felling and I am just really thankfull for it. | Mariah Carey (1970-) |
| Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women. | Maria Callas (1923-1977) |
| My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians. | Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) |
| It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it. | Miles Davis (1926-1991) |
| I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true. | Pablo Casals (1876-1973) |
| It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it | Sir Paul McCartney (1942-) |
| Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. | Ralph Ellison (1914-) |
| Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms | Salman Rushdie (1947-) |
| Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it. | Shania Twain (1965-) |
| There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion. | Thomas C. Haliburton (1796-1865) |
| Music is well said to be the speech of angels. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs.... because they have the most to hide. The guys that are in the most pain are usually the ones with the biggest hearts. | Tori Amos (1963-) |
| Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of antimusic. | William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-) |
| Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. | Berthold Auerbach (1812-1882) |
| Without music, life would be an error. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. | Marcel Marceau (1923-) |
| Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) |
| Music is love in search of a word. | Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954) |
| Music is the best means we have of digesting time. | Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) |
| Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. | E. Y. Harburg (1896-1981) |
| To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. | Aaron Copland (1900-1990) |
| Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| Music is spiritual. The music business is not. | Van Morrison (1945-) |
| Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. | G. Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) |
| Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. | Mary Kay Ash (1915-2001) |
| Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love | Louis-Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) |
| We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams. | Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) |
| If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. | Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) |
| You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house and if you got a glass jaw, you should watch yo mouth: cause I'll break yo face. | 50 Cent |
| When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me. | Aaron Copland (1900-1990) |
| I can see through youSee your true colors'Cause inside you're uglyYou're ugly like me. | Aaron Lewis |
| Music is love, love is music, music is my life and I love my life. Thank you and goodnight. | AJ McLean (1977-1901) |
| Music, the mosaic of the air | Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) |
| i smoke and i drinkand every time i blink i have a tiny dreambut as bad as i am i'm proud of the factthat i'm worse than i seem | Ani diFranco (1970-) |
| I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone. | Aretha Franklin (1942-) |
| I don’t think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, there is where the artistry lies!! | Artur Schnabel (1882-1951) |
| i dont want to be compared to britney,ashlee,hilary or lindsay. i want to be compared to me. | Avril Lavigne (1984-) |
| Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intention, and they're as far apart as Heaven and Hell. | Ben Harper |
| Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with tambourine and harp | Bible |
| If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music. | Billie Holiday (1915-1959) |
| Never run in the rain with your socks on. | Billie Joe Armstrong (1972-) |
| Im a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl | Bjork (1965-) |
| The radio makes hideous sounds. | Bob Dylan (1941-) |
| Hey mister music, sure sounds good to me I can't refuse it what to be got to be | Bob Marley (1945-1981) |
| I like Wagner's music much better than anybody's. It's so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing you. | Bob Marley (1945-1981) |
| I love the development of our music, that's what I really dig about the whole thing. How we've tried to develop, y'know? It grows. That's why every day people come forward with new songs. Music goes on forever. | Bob Marley (1945-1981) |
| I need to sing, and I love to travel, so making music is the one thing I've dreamed of doing all my life. | Britney Spears (1981-) |
| I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. | Britney Spears (1981-) |
| See, I was nine years old when I saw Elvis on 'Ed Sullivan', and I had to get a guitar the next day. I stood in front of my mirror with that guitar on. . . and I knew then that's what had been missing. | Bruce Springsteen (1949-) |
| You've always got to remember, rock and roll's never been about giving up. For me, for a lot of kids, it was a totally positive force. . . not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never--never--about surrender. | Bruce Springsteen (1949-) |
| The release date is just one day, but the record is forever. | Bruce Springsteen (1949-) |
| The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility | Charles Lamb (1775-1834) |
| We’ll never ever be as good on record as we are live because we’re not a full band unless those kids are there. We ride the ripples of that emotional tide like at a movie theatre. If there’s any artistry to what I do, any gift that I have, it’s that somehow I’ve been able to tap into that. People have told me that I guide it. I don’t think so – I think I ride it…That’s what I’ll miss most when it’s all over. But maybe I’ll just go to more movies. | Chris Carrabba |
| You know when you’re in a movie and you don’t know anybody else in the theater and the most beautiful thing happens on the screen? Everybody there feels this overwhelming sense of whatever that emotion is? You’re surrounded by strangers but you’re all feeling the same thing. The feeling is intensified because it’s being shared by three hundred people all at the same instant. That’s what we try to do, too. | Chris Carrabba |
| Ja Rule is not Tupac | Chris Rock (1966-) |
| Music chose me, not the other way around. | Christine Anderson |
| I've learned a great deal about music through my experiences. I've learned of its sanctity. Of its holiness. I've learned that music is a very powerful force, not to be trivialized or watered down or maufactured into soul-less, mindless drivel. Selling out to the corporate butcher would secure me a nice little place in hell, I knew. So I determined early on to make it on my own. | Christine Anderson |
| A song is like a smile. If you meet people from another country, even if you don't speak the same language, you know what a smile means. A song works the same way. Music produces feelings that need no translation. | Clay Aiken (1978-) |
| When I was a kid, I used to fantasize about death. Not that I was suicidal, but there was an attraction there. I went from 'I don't care what happens' to 'everything is terrifying.' | Conor Oberst |
| We aren't hiding behind these masks, we're actually revealing more to you than you might think. The mask I wear brings out all the sh*t inside me that I hate. Plus it hurts like hell, which helps my intensity. If you feel like talking, you talk, if you don't, you don't. So many people are like, 'Gimmick, gimmick, gimmick!' F*ck you! You don't know what we're about! Our motto has always been, 'Music First.' Even if the masks and the coveralls weren't there, the music would still be good. | Corey Taylor |
| Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues. | Count Basie (1904-1984) |
| I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| My son does not appreciate classical musicians such as the Stones; he is more into bands with names like "Heave" and "Squatting Turnips." | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds. | Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993) |
| ) Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star. | Don Williams, Jr (1968-) |
| As regards rap music, I believe that the "c" is silent. | Dr. Tony Giles |
| We are not the guardian angels of anybody. We only play authentic, nasty rock and roll. | Duff McKagan (1964-) |
| I love making people happy and I think I'm basically a good person ...despite what you might read about me! | Duff McKagan (1964-) |
| Few things in life can spark and radiate strong pleasure, intense feelings, and touch the main nerve of the soul... music is a divine source to those who will let it travel within. | Ellis Hadlock (1960-) |
| Seems like more and more of the technical side, quality, and sound of music is of higher importance in the music business... and less of the essence, meaning, and intent inside the music is recognized and appreciated. | Ellis Hadlock (1960-) |
| Placed in music, there's a two way appreciation felt... to the heart, and from the heart. | Ellis Hadlock (1960-) |
| Music gives the inspiring, yet intangible beauty, a path of expression, a voice. | Ellis Hadlock (1960-) |
| Rock&roll is a lifestyle, so baby come rock with me! | Félix Perron |
| Rock 'n Roll is the most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. | Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) |
| Music is always a commentary on society. | Frank Zappa (1940-1993) |
| If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state | Frank Zappa (1940-1993) |
| Only sick music makes money today. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Without music life would be a mistake. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| In music the passions enjoy themselves. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. | G. Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) |
| I think the popular music has gone truly weird. It's either cutesy-wutesy or it's hard, nasty stuff. It's good that this has life again with the youth. | George Harrison (1943-2001) |
| The Beatles will go on and on. | George Harrison (1943-2001) |
| I think people who can truly live a life in music are telling the world, "You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give | George Harrison (1943-2001) |
| The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords If when the soul unto the lines accords | George Herbert (1593-1633) |
| Music is essentially useless, as is life | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| If for one minute you think you're better than a sixteen year old girl in a Green Day t-shirt, you are sorely mistaken. Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about. | Gerard Way |
| Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. | Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-) |
| Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world. | Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872) |
| Like carnivores to carnal pleasuresAs are we to desperate measures. | Harvey Danger |
| If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| 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 Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. | Henri Matisse (1869-1954) |
| If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Our music isn't black or white or brown. It comes from the heart, which beats red. | Henry Garza |
| There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Half of life is fucking up the other half is dealing with it. | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| Life is full of choices, if you have the guts to go for it. That's why I get immediately bored with anyone's complaining about how boring their life is, or how bad their town is. Fucking leave and go somewhere else. Or don't. | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good. | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important. | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person? To have it all come out right, to surprise yourself at how together you could be. When was the last time you ever met someone who made you want to give it all to them? I mean give yourself to them. Where you couldn't express yourself enough - like you wanted to cut off one of your arms to be understood. That's it - you would cut your head off to have someone understand you. You know how pointless that one is. You know how many times you've smashed yourself to bits on the rocks. | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| I must tell you that I was always afraid of the fury with which I loved you. It overwhelmed me. I thought it beyond comprehension, therefore my silence. | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you. | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| The average is the borderline that keeps meremen in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the veryact. Go. | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| I am ready for whatever's coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or turned away. I am alone. Goddamn. The shit hurts sometimes, but I realize what I am, what I have become. The alien man waved his arms up and down and noticed that he couldn't wave in the right language so he stopped. | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated. | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself. | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine. | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| You would think that pot had some kind of power; I mean come on, it's a plant, not a reason for living. Controlled by a plant, how hilarious. A plant! A fucking plant! | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time. | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| There are so many hammocks to catch you if you fall, so many laws to keep you from experience. All these cities I have been in the last few weeks make me fully understand the cozy, stifling state in which most people pass through life. I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride. All you do is get to breathe and copulate and finally die. I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks. People will walk by and say, "Look at that drooling idiot. What a basket case." I will turn and say to them "It is you who are the basket case. For every moment you hated your job, cursed your wife and sold yourself to a dream that you didn't even conceive. For the times your soul screamed yes and you said no. For all of that. For your self-torture, I see the glowing eyes of the sun! The air talks to me! I am at all times!" And maybe, the passers by will drop a coin into my cup. | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| I don't want to know. I don't need it. I don't want the information that millions of people have. I don't want to be fed these boring facts and figures. Then you'll become one of the masses. I'd rather starve my mind a bit and have to search out nutrition in stranger places. | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| The streets lie, the sidewalks lie, everything lies You can try and read it but you're gonna get it wrong...all wrong The summer evenings burn and melt and the nights glitter but you're gonna get it wrong And it's gonna sink its teeth into your flesh and pull you to the bottom. | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| I walk the straight lines. I walk through the summer nights. I walk the silver rope of dreams. I walk through dawns of dawns. There’s not a lot that isn’t dying. I see people parading in front of each other like insects in a killing jar, watching each other die. I walk the straight lines throught the Christ machines. Through the eyes of throwaway people. Through the wards and the shores and the cracks in the skulls of the sidewalks. Through love’s howling vacancy. I am the freedom soil. I dig my own grave. I resurrect myself every night. I am all things to myself. I walk the straight lines. I walk the spiders’s jailhouse. I walk the think line, the thin line, the white line and all the line in between. I wish I could trade in my eyes. | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| “The whitest white dipped in clinging dirt. Another summer has thrown its corpse on my floor. The streets have given birth to even more strangers. Rivers of urine stripe the sidewalks. It rained the other day and the only thing that occurred to me was it would wash the smell away for a few days. Tonight is the first hot night. Outside my window, the human noise factor is intense. It’s past midnight. They talk too much. They scream liquor-fueled idiot chatter. I pull away and close the door. I think about how it’s all going to play out. How much time people spend trying to get across to each other, trying to clear their names. Trying to overturn the charges brought against them. I have decided to tell them that it’s all true and not seek a fair trial. It’s the only way to be free. Stop trying to matter. I could get my body tattooed with air-colored ink and walk invisibly amongst them. I have heard people say that they felt closer to their parents after they have died. Maybe if I treat people as if they were dead, I could get along with them better. I want to be able to like living people somehow. As it is now, they’re I best coming through speakers or trapped between book covers. Here I go into the heat. Four months as a human anvil.” | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| My feelings for you shame me into silence. The truth of this and your name will never be revealed. It is you who has made me realize the failure of my life. The thought of you fills me with longing and at the same time, a burning humiliation that produces scar tissue and dead brain cells. Your existence mocks me and I am unable to confront this. You have no idea of any of this. None of this is your fault. It is completely with me. It is you who makes me see what I really am. I am weak and out of touch with myself. | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul. | Henry Rollins (1961-) |
| 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. | Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) |
| Well any man with a microphonecan tell you what he loves the mostand you know why you love at allif you're thinking of the holy ghostif you're thinking of the holy ghost. | Jack White (1944-) |
| In my finest moment, when all of my fantastic dreams have come true...I will be utterly and completely alone. | Jade Esteban Estrada (1975-) |
| All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. | Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) |
| I don't think either the Offspring or Green Day started their bands with the intention of becoming so enormously popular; that sort of fell in their laps-especially the Offspring. My attitude is if somebody blunders into the level of popularity, at least remember the human factor. These guys are still human beings and hopefully still have hearts and if you keep in touch with them rather than vilify them you may be able to encourage them to go in the right direction. What I'm hoping will eventually happen is that they will grasp the amount of power and financial clout that is now at their fingertips and use those as tools to help real people with real things the way punk politics was always designed to do before, but nobody had any money. | Jello Biafra (1958-) |
| I hate music, especially when it's played. | Jimmy Durante (1893-1980) |
| Ah music....a magic far beyond anything done here. | Joanne Kathleen Rowling (1965-) |
| The Future is Unwritten | Joe Strummer (1952-2002) |
| Ross (Robinson) is insane! Once, when we were recording here, he threw a potted plant at me. It exploded on the wall over my head and the dirt went in my mouth. It was awesome. | Joey Jordison (1975-) |
| Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. | John Armstrong |
| I am the Eggman, they are the Eggmen, I am the Walrus | John Lennon (1940-1980) |
| Music is the medicine of the mind | John Logan |
| You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar. | John Lydon (1956-) |
| I just don't see myself in that place where I really want to bop anymore. | John Mayer (1977-) |
| [on his former manager, Malcolm McLaren] Let's just say that if Malcolm breathes, it's too much for me to stomach. | John (Johnny Rotten) Lydon (1956-) |
| [on being attacked in a parking lot] "While I was being pounded to pieces, I was just thinking, 'Hell...oh, this is just so absurd.' You have to laugh because it's so...where do they come from?" | John (Johnny Rotten) Lydon (1956-) |
| The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music. | Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) |
| Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. | June Masters Bacher |
| Music is philosophy. Every chord, every word tells a story. If you listen you will know its meaning. | Kamanda Ndama |
| How we stop the black panthers?Ronald Reagan cooked up an answerYou hear that?What Gil Scott was hearinWhen our heroes and heroines got hooked on heroin.Crack raised the murder rate in DC and MarylandWe invested in that it's like we got Merril-LynchAnd we been hangin from the same tree ever since | Kanye West (1977-) |
| We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you know? And it was such a turnaround, I guess it caught people by surprise. | Karen Carpenter (1950-1983) |
| "All in all is all we are." | Kurt Cobain (1967-1994) |
| My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions. They're split between very sincere opinions and feelings that I have, and sarcastic opinions and feelings that I have, and sarcastic and hopeful, humorous rebuttles towards cliche, bohemian ideals that have been exhausted for years. I meean, I like to be passionate and sincere, but I also like to have fun and act like a dork... Geeks Unite. | Kurt Cobain (1967-1994) |
| There's that feeling I get when I look to the west, and my spirit is crying for leaving | Led Zeppelin |
| It's a great little ego boost to look out and see all these people. I saw Roger Waters there recently. It was great and marvelous, but would I rather have seen Roger Waters at the Warfield? Hell yah man! I would've paid twice as much to see that! | Les Claypool (1963-) |
| Rage Against the Machine just broke up. The Chili Peppers are taking a hiatus. I just heard Newsted quit Metallica. It's going to be interesting what transpires out of all this. | Les Claypool (1963-) |
| Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) |
| Music! Makes the people! Come together! | Madonna (1958-) |
| Richard Wagner: A composer whose music is better than it sounds | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best, this music draws attention to complex dimensions of ghetto life ignored by most Americans. Indeed, gangsta rap's in-your-face style may do more to force America to confront crucial social problems than a million sermons or political speeches. | Michael Eric Dyson (1958-) |
| The fantasies of music are governed by art, mine by chance | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain. | Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) |
| I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to take it in. 'You're not special. That's how I receive it too... I tried to taste it, but it did not work.' | Mitch Hedberg (1968-2005) |
| Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. | 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. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| 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 (1854-1900) |
| Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. | Paul Simon (1941-) |
| Sometimes I wake up and go: Oh no, I have to get up !. Just like everyone else. | Paul Van Dyk (1971-) |
| Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory | Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) |
| I've got a strong urge to fly. But I got nowhere to fly to. | Pink Floyd |
| There's someone in my head but it's not me. | Pink Floyd |
| If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes You'll just have to claw your way through this disguise | Pink Floyd |
| And I can feel one of my turns coming on. I feel cold as a razor blade, Tight as a tourniquet, Dry as a funeral drum. | Pink Floyd |
| There is no pain you are receding A distant ship, smoke on the horizon. You are only coming through in waves. Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying. When I was a child I had a fever My hands felt just like two balloons. Now I've got that feeling once again I can't explain you would not understand This is not how I am. I have become comfortably numb. | Pink Floyd |
| If you should go skating On the thin ice of modern life Dragging behind you the silent reproach Of a million tear-stained eyes Don't be surprised when a crack in the ice Appears under your feet. You slip out of your depth and out of your mind With your fear flowing out behind you As you claw the thin ice. | Pink Floyd |
| You can't squeeze blood from a rock | Proverb |
| God is just a concept, but music is tangible. | Quinn Allman |
| Some have thought deeply and explored the meaning of thy truth, and they are great; I have listened to catch the music of thy play, and I am glad | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. | Ralph Ellison (1914-) |
| I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water. | Ray Charles (1930-2004) |
| Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. | Rebecca West (1892-1983) |
| Off the field I like to go out, but not too much. I love to dress well, love Italian fashion. And I like to eat well. But in general I'm a simple guy. Cars are not my great passion, but I think it's important to have the best. To me, music is a must; | Ronaldo (1976-) |
| Music is the soundtrack of my life | Roth Nop |
| I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park. | Rufus Wainwright (1973-) |
| I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.' | Rufus Wainwright (1973-) |
| This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it. | Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974) |
| Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| "We are big fans of "happy" music and stuff like that." | Sebastien Lefebvre (1981-) |
| Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music | Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-) |
| Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart. | Shinichi Suzuki (1898-1998) |
| Music is love in search of a word. | Sidonie Gabrielle |
| I wrote a song, but I can't read music. Every time I hear a new song on the radio I think, "Hey, maybe I wrote that." | Stephen Wright (1955-) |
| It's The Mourning Show. Is it true that the theme song is going to be "Taps"? | Steve Friedman (1946-) |
| There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| 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 (1795-1881) |
| Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| The still small voice of gratitude. | Thomas Gray (1716-1771) |
| While nobles are crying in their nights' chains, the squires sing. The terrible politics of the Grail can never touch them. Song is the magic cape. | Thomas Pynchon (1937-) |
| Hip Hop offers new ways of seeing and understanding what it means to be black at this pivotal time in history. | Todd Boyd |
| "The new-school hip-hop generation exists with a mandate to 'keep it real'; this has to do with embracing a hard-nosed truth about the world and letting the chips fall where they may." | Todd Boyd |
| I wish I was a rapper. There are certainly times when I wish I could just drop an album and channel all my ideas, anger, humor and energy into some music and be done with it. | Todd Boyd |
| In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement. | Todd Boyd |
| Punk rock seems like my childhood, the glorious, very exciting naivete of rock n' roll. Stenguns and guitars seem very idealistic when you're twenty. | Tony James |
| With all his greatness and accomplishments on the guitar, Dime will be missed more for his giving personality, charisma, caring for others, love and most of all his HEART!! Twice as big as the state of TEXAS!!!!!!!!!!!! Dime gave it all every day to each and every one of us and our lives have forever been hollowed without him...Thanks to all of you for reaching out to us in this time of our immeasurable loss. REST IN PEACE BROTHER DIME!!!!!! | Vinnie Paul Abbott |
| My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason. | Will Smith (1968-) |
| I just start singing, and it all comes back. | William Harvey (1578-1657) |
| The earth has music for those who listen. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous | Lord Yehudi Menuhin |
| Hun sitter der ved sitt klavér og bygger opp en katedral av kjærlighet og ånd. | Harald Sverdrup (1923-1992) |
| Jeg skulle ønske jeg hadde hatt en saksofon, så jeg kunne ula litt. | Kristin Halvorsen (1960-) |
| Mitt rom er fylt av melodi. En spilledåse går: et sart og spinkelt kniplingsbroderi av toner.Hysj! Det brister snart. | André Bjerke (1918-1985) |
| Musikalske mennesker er så absurd urimelige. De ønsker alltid at man skal vøre totalt stum når man selv lengter etter å være totalt døv. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Musikalske mennesker er så absurd urimelige. De ønsker alltid at man skal være totalt stum når man selv lengter etter å være totalt døv. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Musikere pensjonerer seg ikke, de slutter når det ikke er mer musikk igjen i dem. | Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) |
| Musikk - skyller vekk støvet fra hverdagslivet | Ranveig Sørensen |
| Musikk er skrift for den blinde. | Ranveig Sørensen |
| Musikken uttrykker hva man hverken kan si eller fortie. | Ranveig Sørensen |
| Noter skaper ikke musikk, det er musikk som skaper noter. | Ranveig Sørensen |
| Abbakus: Räkneapparat för att beräkna taktarten i "Money, money, money". | Dragbasun |
| Allt som jag vill är att din hjärna står still för en dum, ful, korkad men skön patetisk sång om kärlek. | Pex Tufvesson (1974-) |
| Anledningen till att fiolspelarna alltid är bra kompisar med banjospelaren är att utan honom vore fiolen det mest hatade instrumentet i orkestern. | Aaron Copland (1900-1990) |
| Att fela är omänskligt, sa Gud och uppfann Tuban. | Aaron Copland (1900-1990) |
| Att lyssna på Ralph Vaughan Williams femte symfoni är som att stirra på en ko i fyrtiofem minuter. | Aaron Copland (1900-1990) |
| Att lära sig njuta av musik genom att läsa om den, är som att älska via e-mail | Luciano Pavarotti (1935-) |
| Att personer som spelar säckpipa alltid går runt beror på att de vill komma bort från oljudet. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Att skriva artiklar om musik är som att dansa om arkitektur. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Av all musik tycker jag bäst om Wagners. Den är så högljudd att man kan prata hela tiden utan att andra hör vad man säger. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Av allt stoj, är musik den minst obehagliga. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Av Mozart kan man lära sig använda knappa medel: maximal effekt med minimal ansträngning. | Hans Werner Henze |