Quotes About Appreciation

True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse

There is music in all things, if men had ears.

Listen deeper than the music before you put it in the box.

No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so.

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.

The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it.

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us

I don't judge too much as long as it's good. As long as it's good music and good artistry, I'm with it.

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.

Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

It seems stupid when people limit themselves to one kind of music. It tells me they're not using their ears.

I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.