Okay, here is a collection of music-related quotes. Some are funny, some are not but on the whole I think they are all interesting to read. :)

"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." --Johann Sebastian Bach

"A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it." -- Sir Thomas Beecham

"No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist." -- Ludwig van Beethoven

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." -- Hector Berlioz

"Remember that all music, in general, is a succession of rainbows." -- Cablo Casals

"I always thought we'd either end up working with animals or whatever 'cause it's kind of a circus anyway, this whole U2 thing. " -- Adam Clayton

"I'll play it first and tell you what it is later." -- Miles Davis

"You don't get harmony if everyone sings the same note." -- Doug Floyed

"Without music life would be a mistake." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you." -- Charlie Parker

"Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour." -- Gioacchino Rossini

"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end." --Igor Stravinsky

"Wagner's music is better than it sounds." -- Mark Twain

"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." --Voltaire

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