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.

Recycled The Best Of May 2004 for Apr 2009:

A painter paints pictures on canvas but musicians paint their pictures on silence.

...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
  • Moliere, 1673
Like a madman, beyond all limits, go wherever you please; And live like a lion, completely free of fear.
  • A Dzogchen Tantra
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
  • Janis Joplin (1943 - 1970)
Abstract art? A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
  • Al Capp (1909 - 1979)
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
  • George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
It's kinda like a toothpaste commercial, but there's no product.
  • Neil Young, on music videos by Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.
  • Paul Simon, (Sounds Of Silence 1965)
As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.
  • George Harrison (1943-2001)
Without deviation, progress is not possible.
  • Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)

 

 

 

 

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