Absent Quote by Harry Partch

Music isn't only a profession.

— Jose Carreras

Music, that has mostly earned a 'film music' status in our country, leaves genres like jazz, folk and classical to the niche. But, something…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

Horses are wild animals, essentially, and they're not there to do what humans want them to - they can be browbeaten or cajoled or…

— Marianne Elliott

He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves…

— Mark Helprin

No human society, present or past, has lacked music. Music is therefore one of the very few human universals, which puts it on the…

— Fredric Lieberman

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

— Rudolf Carnap

The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad…

— Andy Rooney

Riding a horse is a relationship with a foreign creature, and with musicians it's a similar thing: "OK, I'm going to put something on…

— Nico Muhly

As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as though they…

— Russell Sherman

The importance of music extends well beyond its performance.

— Lewis Gordon

Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve…

— Billy Corgan

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians…

— Pierre Schaeffer