A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- AnonymousThere's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian BachLife is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel ButlerMusic with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. ChestertonMilitary justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George ClemenceauMusic is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules CombarieuThe whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No." -- Aaron CoplandWe don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the floor. Digital technology will now faithfully reproduce these noisy, low-fi, un-professional masters at great expense. feel stupid yet? -- Disclaimer on a CDHell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert FrostCute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music"If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-makingAfter silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous HuxleyOpera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. MenckenThere is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de MontaigneI don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis PresleyPropel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boat" on his television show, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard ShawNever look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conductingToo many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Wheaton College Graduation, 1995Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestraAnything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- VoltaireMusic makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar WildeMusical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar WildeMost rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap