{"id":4454,"date":"2010-02-08T18:36:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T02:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.mixmatchmusic.com\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2010-02-08T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T03:53:00","slug":"top-30-music-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/2010\/02\/08\/top-30-music-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 30 Music Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The above quote is by Friedrich Nietzsche<\/a>.
\n(I assume A.Z. is whoever put the quote on the bench.)<\/p>\n

“We don\u2019t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.” – Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, in 1962<\/a><\/p>\n

“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.” – Elvis Presley<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIf I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.\u201d – Albert Einstein<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMusic is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.\u201d – John Lennon<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.\u201d – Aldous Huxley<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMusic expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.\u201d – Victor Hugo<\/a><\/p>\n

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” –\u00a0 Jimi Hendrix<\/a><\/p>\n

“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.” – Johann Sebastian Bach<\/a><\/p>\n

“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Berthold Auerbach<\/a><\/p>\n

“Music is love in search of a word.” – Sidney Lanier<\/a><\/p>\n

“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.” – Oscar Wilde<\/a><\/p>\n

“A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.” – Benny Green<\/a><\/p>\n

“Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.” – Charlie Parker<\/a><\/p>\n

“When I first heard Elvis’ voice, I knew that I wasn’t going to work for anybody … hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail” – Bob Dylan<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMusic produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.\u201d\u00a0 – Confucius<\/a><\/p>\n

“If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.” – Zimbabwe<\/a> Proverb<\/p>\n

“Where words fail, music speaks.” – Hans Christian Andersen<\/a><\/p>\n

“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”\u00a0 – Leo Tolstoy<\/a><\/p>\n

“A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.” – Frank Zappa<\/a><\/p>\n

“Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.” – Voltaire<\/a><\/p>\n

“I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.” – Ella Fitzgerald<\/a><\/p>\n

“Playing ‘Bop’ is like Scrabble with all the vowels missing.\u201d – Duke Ellington<\/a><\/p>\n

“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.” – Igor Stravinsky<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMTV is to music as KFC is to chicken.\u201d – Lewis Black<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.\u201d – Richard Strauss<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHe has a woman’s name and wears makeup. How original.\u201d – Alice Cooper<\/a>, on Marilyn Manson<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIf a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.\u201d – Gustav Mahler<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMusic is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom.\u00a0If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.\u201d – Charlie Parker<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven’t got the joke yet.\u201d\u00a0– Oliver Herford<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 30 best music-related quotes we could find, including quotes from artists, musicians, writers, philosopher’s and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[25],"tags":[2226,2224,2225,2222,2223,2221,2227,2228],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4454"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4466,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions\/4466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}