Music Quotes - Page 11
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
Quoted in N.Y. Times, 7 July 1971
Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.162, Simon and Schuster
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.153, Simon and Schuster
Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Music at Night (1931) p. 17
"The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.