“I like Beethoven, especially the poems.”
“I was a veteran before I was a teenager.”
“You are the music while the music lasts.”
“Wagner's music is better than it sounds.”
“Music is essentially useless, as life is.”
“Music is the vernacular of the human soul.”
“Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.”
“Country music is three chords and the truth.”
“A good composer does not imitate; he steals.”
“Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.”
“It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.”
“You don't need any brains to listen to music.”
“The history of a people is found in its songs.”
“A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.”
“Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.”
“Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.”
“Don't play what's there, play what's not there.”
“Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.”
“I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.”
“Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.”
“Without music, life is a journey through a desert.”
“Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.”
“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.”
“Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.”
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”
“Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.”
“Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.”
“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
“Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.”
“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.”