| "It is better to be making the news than taking it to be an actor rather than a critic." »Winston Churchill |
| "A critic is a bunch of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste." »Whitney Balliett |
| "I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music." »George Eliot |
| "Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic." »Ambrose Bierce |
| "Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic" »Jean Sibelius |
| "Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music." »Friedrich von Schelling |
| "More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic." »Uta Hagan |
| "My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often--in fact, mostly--at the expense of everything else in my life." »Stan Getz |
| "Frank I'd known her for years. We used to go to all the police functions together. Ah, how I loved her, but she had her music. I think she had her music. She'd hang out with the Chicago Male Chorus and Symphony. I don't recall her playing an instrument or be able to carry a tune. Yet she was on the road 300 days of the year. In fact I bought her a harp for christmas. She asked me what it was." »Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad |
| "We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, 'Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday'" »Michel MacLiammir |
| "Dateline Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum." »Jeffrey Vlaming |
| "The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish." »Virgil Thompson |
| "It is not the critic that counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or the doer of deeds could have them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the Arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming but he who does actually strive to do the deed who knows the great devotion who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat." »Theodore Roosevelt |
| "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." »Elvis Presley |
| "Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable." »Samuel Johnson |
| "music is well said to be the speech of angels." »Thomas Carlyle |
| "music is the soul of language." »Max Heindel |
| "The earth has music for those who listen." »William Shakespeare |
| "Philosophy is the highest music." »Plato |
| "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music." »Julius Henry Marx |
| "You don't need any brains to listen to music." »Luciano Pavarotti |
| "Wagner's music is better than it sounds." »Mark Twain |
| "In music the passions enjoy themselves." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| "I hate music, especially when it's played." »Jimmy Durante |
| "Without music life would be a mistake." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| "Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here" »J. K. Rowling |
| "music is the shorthand of emotion." »Leo Tolstoy |
| "music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some..." »Jacqui Webb |
| "Those who hear not the music. . . think the dancers mad." »Unknown |
| "music is essentially useless, as life is." »George Santayana |
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