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When real music comes to me⁠—the music of the speres, the music that surpasseth understanding⁠—that has nothing to do with me, cause I’m just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium…those moments are what I live for.
John Lennon1940–1980
I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honoured to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.
Michael Jackson1958–2009
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.
Hunter S. Thompson1937–2005
- Clever Jabs
Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; no, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.
E. W. Howe1853–1937
If people stand in a circle long enough, they’ll eventually begin to dance.
George Carlin1937–2008Napalm and Silly Putty (2001)
- Comedy
- Dancing
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry.
John Lennon1940–19801972 Mike Douglas Show, quoted in: Lawrence, Ken (2005) John Lennon: In His Own Words, p. 107.
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847), Part I, section 1.
- Beauty
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881The Opera (1852).
Sweetest melodies
Are those that are by distance made more sweet.
William Wordsworth1770–1850Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Personal Talk, Stanza 2
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
KCKurt Cobain1967–1994As quoted in M.E.A.T. (September 1991)
In the largest sense, every work of art is protest. … A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it. … A hymn is a controversial song — sing one in the wrong church: you’ll find out. …
Pete Seeger1919–2014Pop Chronicles, Show 33—Revolt of the Fat Angel: American musicians respond to the British invaders. Part 1, interview recorded 2.14.1968.
- Art
Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.
Frank Zappa1940–1993Roxy & Elsewhere (1974)
- Comedy
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
John Milton1608–1674Arcades (1630-1634), line 68
Almost no one dances sober, unless he is insane.
Cicero107–43 BCPro Murena (Chapter VI, sec. 13)
- Comedy
- Dancing