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Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may seem… — John Blacking
We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs from ours. It is another… — Erik Satie
Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect… — Derek Bailey
Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it. — Derek Bailey
The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's minds are led… — Confucius
It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person at… — Yehudi Menuhin
I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these fingers, but I… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
There are more bad musicians than there is bad music. — Isaac Stern
The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously. — Philip Larkin
The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm. — Thomas Beecham
Mozart died too late rather than too soon. — Glenn Gould
If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all consist of unmeaning… — Unknown Author
In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages. — Thomas Beecham
What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about. — Thomas Beecham
Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed. — Edward Abbey
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet. — Bertolt Brecht
He'd be better off shoveling snow. — Richard Strauss
I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony. — Unknown Author
If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music. — Maurice Ravel
Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it. — Thomas Beecham
After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter. — Arturo Toscanini
We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again. — Thomas Beecham
Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on. — Thomas Beecham
Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold… — Plato
Music is a defining element of character. — Plato

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