Music Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

— Kurt Vonnegut

What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."

— Kurt Vonnegut

The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“There were no windows in the Stockholders' Records Section of the Treasurer's Department of the American Forge and Foundry Company. But the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I like to sleep. I published a new requiem for old music in another book, in which I said it was no…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Oh, a very sorry people, yes, Did I find here. Oh, they had no music, And they had no beer. And, oh,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Artists,‚Äù he said, ‚Äúare people who say, 'I can't fix my country or my state or my city, or even my marriage.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters…

— Kurt Vonnegut

With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Trout sat back and thought about the conversation. He shaped it into a story, which he never got around to writing until…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“. . . Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“He spent two years in the extermination camp at Auschwitz. According to his own reluctant account, he came this close to going…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for…

— Kurt Vonnegut

But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny…

— Kurt Vonnegut