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 August 2008:

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
  • Mark Twain (Samuel Longhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
  • Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Music at Night", 1931
I hate music, especially when it's played.
  • Jimmy Durante (1893 - 1980)
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
  • Reba McEntire
My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.
  • Ashleigh Brilliant (1933 - )
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
  • Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
  • Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977)
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
  • Danny Kaye (1913 - 1987)
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
  • Plato (428 BC - 348 BC)
Only sick music makes money today.
  • Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Der Fall Wagner, Section 5
Life is a shit sandwich. But if you've got enough bread, you don't taste the shit.
  • Jonathan Winters (1925 - )
I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.
  • Jadelr and Cristina Cordova, _Chasing Windmills_
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
  • John Erskine (1879 - 1951)
Many mean and sarcastic things have been played and sung in music over the years.
  • [obq]
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
  • Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
  • Christopher Isherwood (1904 – 1986)
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
  • Author Unknown

 

 

 

 

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