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 October 2008:

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

In a mad world only the mad are sane.
  • Akira Kurosawa (1910 - 1998)
 Let each man exercise the art he knows.
  • Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Wasps, 422 B.C.
 Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
  • George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
  • Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attrib.)
My music is best understood by children and animals.
  • Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971), In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
 Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
  • Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961)
 I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
  • Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
 Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
  • Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

 

 

 

 

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