"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