Life is too short to play bad music

In a way, to have whatever people talk about as "crossover success," I think it means you start making bad music. I mean, when…

— Conor Oberst

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

— Oscar Wilde

“There's work to do.”

— Alien Ant Farm

You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's…

— Aimee Mann

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Pop music is a difficult term to define. I think about good music and bad music. Good music is good music whatever origin it…

— Nina Persson

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance…

— Peter Warlock

Bad music disturbs me, but wonderful music disturbs me even more.

— Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

“Dear Daniel, How do you break up with your boyfriend in a way that tells him, "I don't want to sleep with you on…

— Daniel Handler

“I am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards. My favorite song of all time is…

— Michael Ian Black

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

— Ernest Newman

Life is too short to listen to bad music.

— Itmse867

I've always believed in good music over bad music. I believe in two sorts of musics. And the lines that separate us, I don't…

— Jay-Z

My friends and I have often discussed the plausibility of a connection between qualitatively bad music and quantifiably successful music, often citing the example…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.

— Frederick Delius