Bad Quote by Robert Christgau

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't…

— Dave Brubeck

The way so many musicians slavishly imitated Coltrane, that's the way it was with Charlie Parker - only even more so, if that can…

— Art Pepper

I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

— Johnny Ramone

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

— Shirley Manson

In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on…

— Jack Kerouac

“Brecht’s ‘basic laxity’ was one reason why, apart from his satellites and those tied to him by party bonds, he was generally unpopular with…

— Paul Johnson

I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to…

— Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.

— Ahmet Ertegun

We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.

— Albert Einstein

How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details of his…

— Maria Luisa Bombal

“It was not even necessary for people to know how to sing to be considered rock musicians. Bob Dylan had no clue, but that…

— Frans Johansson

If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.

— Frederick Delius