Music, Art and Madness Quotations and Proverbs

* some views expressed in these quotations not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this file.
* for entertainment only - history is not an exact science - dates and quotes not guaranteed for accuracy.

Added for March 2006:

Reality is something you rise above.

Bass is all about tone and time. It's not about licks.
  • Pete Anderson, record producer, in _Studio Bass Masters_
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
  • Jules de Gaultier
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
  • Jack Kerouac
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
  • Vincent van Gogh, (1853 - 1890)
Applaud friends, the comedy is over.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Some people would say, well, they're melancholy or they're dark, but I don't think so. [...] It is, it really just attracts me and it's true that most of my favorite pieces tend to be in minor keys.
  • Condoleeza Rice, radio interview, wnyc.org/shows/mam/episodes/2005/01/02
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
  • John Ernst Steinbeck
Psychologists have found that music does things to you whether you like it or not. Fast tempos invariably raise your pulse, respiration, and blood pressure; slow music lowers them.
  • Doron K. Antrim
"Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid."
  • Bob Dylan
Warhol is credited with saying (and I paraphrase): The most sincere form of art appreciation is writing a check.
  • Edward Winkleman
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world except money.
  • Johnny Cash (1932 ? 2003)
Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument.
  • Gioacchino Rossini (1792 - 1868)
Genius is eternal patience.
  • Michelangelo
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
  • Judy Garland
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
  • Lou Holtz
You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
  • Frank Zappa (attrib)
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
  • Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
  • William Carlos Williams

 

 

 

 

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