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- There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.
- Isaac Stern
- Only sick music makes money today.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
- Dame Edith Sitwell
- The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
- Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955)
- Everybody should be able to make some music...That's the cosmic dance!
- Maude (Ruth Gordon), from the movie "Harold & Maude"
- Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
- E.M. Cioran
- Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
- Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944), 1912
- That's a hell of an ambition, to be mellow. It's like wanting to be senile.
- Randy Newman on middle of the road music
- He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
- Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
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