Much of our modern music makes you feel like clapping your hands – over your ears!
Music Quotes
The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.
If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.
Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.
Two years of close association with some of the best, as well as some of the worst, tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues. (On editing The English Hymnal)
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of speech, freedom of religious thought, and the right to due process for composers, performers and retailers are imperiled if the PMRC and the major labels consummate this nasty bargain.
How do you know when it’s time to tune your bagpipes?
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
The people do not need music which they cannot understand.
Musicians duet better.
