| Author |
Quotes |
| Howard Dietz | Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism. |
| Igor Stravinsky | I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' |
| Igor Stravinsky | Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. |
| Isaac Stern | Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. |
| Jacques Attali | Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore. |
| James Brown | I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. |
| Jean Paul Richter | Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. |
| Jim Morrison | Music inflames temperament. |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. |
| John Armstrong | Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain, Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. |
| John Codrington Bampfylde | Rugged the breast that music cannot tame. |
| Jonathan Edwards | The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music. |
| Jules Combarieu | Music is the art of thinking with sounds. |
| Jules Combarieu | Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. |
| Kenneth A Wells | A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. - Guide to Good Leadership. |
| Kin Hubbard | Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. |
| Kin Hubbard | Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune. |
| Lawrence Durrell | Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. |
| Leonard Bernstein | The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world. |
| Leonard Bernstein | Music . . .can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. |
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