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Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.
~ George Harrison
Anyone who says rock 'n' roll is a passing fad or a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music road has rocks in the head.
~ Alan Freed
Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.
~ Paul Hindemith
Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.
~ Ellen G. White
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.
~ Ralph Ellison
I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.
~ Robert Wyatt
The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?
~ Ronnie James Dio
I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.
~ Derek Bailey
Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.
~ Alexander Borodin
My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.
~ Johann Sebastian Bach
I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" is pretty clever.
~ Alice Cooper
Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.
~ Virgil Thomson
Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?
~ Miranda Lambert
was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?
~ John Keats
I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.
~ Jesse Eisenberg
When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.
~ Ella Fitzgerald
Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.
~ Morton Feldman
Ray and I do not draw salaries. Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in.
~ Steve Vai
I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
~ Oscar Wilde
Grizzly bears eat people without the benefit of music.
~ Don Kardong
To all companies please stop using Xmas songs and inserting your own lyrics. Write your own music. I am boycotting you until you stop.
~ Bill Engvall
I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.
~ Anthony Burgess
I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.
~ Kurt Cobain, Journals