Music Never Lies. - Jimi Hendrix

Your horn players are like one set of lungs and your guitar player is better than me. - Jimi Hendrix talking to Walt Parazaider, woodwind player for The Chicago Transit Authority

I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. - Woody Allen, comedian, actor, director

A painter paints pictures on canvas but musicians paint their pictures on silence. - Leopold Stokowski, conductor, 1882 -1977

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. - Robert Fripp, leader of the prog-rock band, King Crimson

Country music is three chords and the truth. - Harlan Howard, country music singer-songwriter, 1927 -2002

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else. - Lily Tomlin, comedienne, actress

The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief. - S.A. Sachs

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it. - John Lennon

I love Beethoven, especially his poems. -Ringo Starr

You can’t possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven’s Seventh and go slow. - Oscar Levant, pianist, actor, comedian, 1906 -1972, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket

I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on both counts, but I never noticed. - B. B. King

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning. - B. B. King

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. - Gustav Mahler, classical composer

Music is what feelings sound like. - Unknown

An intellectual is someone who can listen to the “William Tell Overture” without thinking of the Lone Ranger. - Dan Rather, TV journalist

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven’t got the joke yet. - Oliver Herford, American writer, 1863 - 1935

I hate music, especially when it’s played. - Jimmy Durante, comedian, actor

For those about to rock, we salute you. - AC/DC

Rock ‘n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. - Frank Sinatra

I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to. - Elvis Presley

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. - Bob Dylan

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. - Dolly Parton

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. - Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer, 1874 -1936

The ’60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together. - Neil Young

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. - John Philip Sousa, American conductor and composer of military marches, 1854-1932

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with. - Duke Ellington

If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know. - Louis Armstrong

There are two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind. - Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington. Take your pick.

Do I listen to pop music because I’m miserable or am I miserable because I listen to pop music? - John Cusack, film actor

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can’t hear it. - Sir Thomas Beecham, British conductor, 1879 - 1961