Bad Music Quotes

• Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Music, Years, Piano

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• A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

  Ernest Newman

  Music, Found, Composer

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• Life is too short to play bad music

  Bob Brozman

  Life Is Too Short, Guitar, Play

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• If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Music, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.257, Penguin

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• There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

  Peter Warlock

  Modern, Music Is, Significance

  Peter Warlock (1998). “The Occasional Writings of Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock): Early music”

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• If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Music, Conversation, Duty

  1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.4.

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• I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.

  Sir Arthur Sullivan

  Forever, Records, Terrified

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• The only music I don't like is bad music.

  Quincy Jones

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• there are two kinds of music - good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad music is music that I don't want to hear.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Two, Want, Kind

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.148, Vintage

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• Bad music disturbs me, but wonderful music disturbs me even more.

  Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

  Wonderful

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• I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.

  Bernie Taupin

  Ignorance, Patriotic, Simple

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• There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

  Isaac Stern

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Musical

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• I don't believe in good music and bad music anymore. I'm through with that phase of my life. Sometimes I just wanna feel good, so I put on a good record. But mostly I'm more of a businessman than a music fan, so I'm listening to music in terms of, is this effective or not effective?

  Questlove

  Believe, Feel Good, Listening

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained.

  Carlo Grante

  Granted, Results, Music Is

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• Pop music is a difficult term to define. I think about good music and bad music. Good music is good music whatever origin it comes from.

  Nina Persson

  Thinking, Pops, Difficult

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• I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.

  Kurt Weill

  Music, Light, Differences

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• A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

  Ruggiero Ricci

  Piano, People, Sound

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• There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

  Pepe Romero

  Order, Modern, Good And Bad

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• Some say the word 'pop' is a derogatory word to say 'not important' - I do not accept that. If the word 'classic' is the word to say 'boring,' I do not accept. There is good and bad music.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Important, Classic, Boring

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• For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.

  Sir Arthur Sullivan

  Forever, Records, May

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• I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.

  April Winchell

  Funny, Cute, Music

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• Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.

  Carlo Grante

  Strong, Grammar, Music Is

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• I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

  Nick Cave

  Art, Thinking, Rocks

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• There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

  Pat Metheny

  Jazz, Form, Audience

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