Bottom Quote by Anton Webern

Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception.

— Stephen Mallinder

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

— Igor Stravinsky

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

— Slash

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be…

— Jean-Philippe Rameau

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

— Jean-Philippe Rameau

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

— Plato

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one,…

— Igor Stravinsky

There are no rules. And there are no boundaries in terms of where your imagination can take you. That is so necessary for music.

— Lights

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

— Nadia Boulanger

Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all.

— Josh Homme

I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.

— Tyler Joseph

The one thing about music is that there are no rules.

— Enrique Iglesias