I think Quote by Glenn Gould

I don't think that those things [so called common practice] ever truly existed in the way that we like to believe that they do,…

— Missy Mazzoli

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

— Lillian Hellman

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

— Derek Bailey

“Music itself has taught me never to underestimate a mistake, for, in the midst of all, it’s often in that mistake where the realm…

— Anna Jae

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

— Steve Lacy

Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

— Victor Wooten

Music affects people in a way that bare facts can't.

— Rhiannon Giddens

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

“A Dataist would argue that the entire exercise is misguided, because music should be evaluated according to the data it carries rather than according…

— Yuval Noah Harari

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

— David Byrne

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

— Confucius

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