“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.” WantKindTwoMusic IsBad Music Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono. Paul and me were the Beatles.” PeopleTwoMusicMusic IsPartners Author:John Lennon
“Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; its a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. Its all right there in front of us.” IfsShouldTwoThreeFansWorstFrontsHugeLessonsLimitsMusicianMusic IsLimitationGenreGenre IsMusic Fans Author:Phil Anselmo
“Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.” KindTwoPoorMusicMusicianMusic IsHundredRatePleasantComposerPettySecond RateBabbling Author:Honore de Balzac
“If there are only you and the music in the room, it means that there are two persons in the room! Music is a live being!” IfsMeanPersonsTwoRoomsMusicMusic Is Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine” ArtTwoStarsMusic IsWineAbstract Author:Edgard Varese
“Music is monophonic in the Eastern world, especially if we're talking about Indian music, Persian music. What we have in classical and Western world is harmony. So I think it's a great idea to be able to bring the best of two together and create something new.” IfsThinkingWorldTwoIdeasAbleTogetherTalkingMusic IsHarmonyWesternIndianSomething NewEasternGreat IdeaWestern WorldPersianIndian Music Author:Hafez Nazeri
“Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety - these big themes are inside us, flickering, all day.” TwoBigsHealingAnxietyMusic IsChaosExtremesTensionThemeComing BackTwo Extremes Author:Arca
“Johnny Jewel is how people were maybe two hundred years ago. Back then, when people got up in the morning, they knew what they had to do to get through the day - there were 100% less decisions. Nowadays, we have to decide what we want to buy in grocery stores, what job to take, what work to do. But not Johnny. For him, it's all right there - it's a freer state, and that's what my music is looking for... ... To understand Johnny, you should think of William Blake. He was the same kinda guy.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldYearsTwoStatesJobsGuyDecisionMorningMusic IsHundredYears AgoStoresJewelsGroceriesGrocery StoresBlake Author:Tom Verlaine
“I think Badfinger was the epitome of that type of music before the power pop term was coined. 'No Matter What" is always gonna be a great song on the radio. There?s probably two or three others off their records that are as cool like 'Day After Day'.” ThinkingTwoMatterSongThreeTermRecordsTypeMusic IsNo Matter WhatRadioPopsEpitome Author:Robin Zander
“I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these two elements.” ThinkingTryingWellsTwoRocksElementsMusic IsConservativeBridgesOperaRock And RollRock And Roll Music Author:Klaus Nomi
“The strangest part of Indian music is its lack of chords: There's no such thing as major or minor, and it's unusual to hear more than two different pitches at the same time.” TwoDifferentMajorsMusic IsIndianUnusualMinorsChordsIndian Music Author:Jonny Greenwood
“The truth is the music is really an incredible personal part of the movie. When I was drawing the storyboards for Watchmen, I had just gone to my iPod and was grabbing music. It took me about two weeks to really put my playlist together. But once I had it, I kinda just put my headsets on and drew for five months. But that music's the music that's in the movie.” TwoTogetherGoneFiveWeekMonthsTruth IsMusic IsIncrediblesDrawingTwo WeeksIpodsGrabbingPlaylistsHeadset Author:Zack Snyder
“I've translated two of Bae's novels, A Greater Music and Recitation, which are coming from Open Letter and Deep Vellum in October and January respectively. A Greater Music is a semi-autobiographical book centred on a Korean writer moving to Berlin, learning to live and even write in a foreign language.” WritingTwoBookMovingLanguageNovelGreaterMusic IsLettersBerlinOctoberKoreanJanuaryForeign LanguageRecitationBae Author:Deborah Smith
“Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.” PeopleWayNeedsLooksTwoPlayOrderStreetsCommunicationMusic IsConnectionsTwo WaysTwo Way Street Author:John Petrucci
“I got into music because my Dad used to tell everyone I had the voice of an angel when I was two-years-old.” YearsTwoUsedVoiceDadMusic IsAngelMy DadTwo YearsTwo Year Olds Author:Janine and The Mixtape
“With a few exceptions like Kraftwerk, most great 20th century Western music is in some way American-based. And the great paradox of America, the paradox that distills America, is that this greatest of American contributions to humanity, this American contribution that probably has influenced more people around the world for the good, that probably has brought more people around the world unqualified joy, was born of America's greatest evil, slavery. Or one of the two great evils anyway, counting the European extinction of those who were on the continent first.” PeopleWorldWayFirstsTwoAmericaJoyHumanityEvilBornCenturyMusic IsSlaveryWesternAround The WorldContributionExceptionParadoxContinents20th CenturyExtinctionCountingUnqualifiedWestern Music Author:Steve Erickson
“If I'm reading about a river or the trees or the wind blowing or the stars at night, if you can hear that in the music in some way, you've wedded the two and your imagination takes off. To be able to hear that in music is really important.” IfsWayTwoImportantAbleNightReadingStarsImaginationTreeWindMusic IsRiversWind Blowing Author:Julie Andrews
“There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.” GivingTwoFunnyTogetherMusicGoes OnMusic IsMusicalGoldenDamnComposerOrchestraTogethernessClassical MusicGolden RuleConductorFunny MusicFamous MusicianClassic MusicComposing MusicMusical LifeFun Music Author:Thomas Beecham
“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” LoveMeanTwoFunnyAnimalMusicDogInspirational LifeMusic IsCatMiseryPetRefugeKittenDog LoverPet AnimalsCat And DogPet DogMusic SoulFunny MusicMusic LifeReverence For LifeFelineFunny CatGreat PetCat DogFamous MusicianInspirational AnimalAnimal LoverMusic LoverPurring CatsCat LoverPets CatsCat LoveDog GriefPet GriefHumans And DogsInspirational CatCute CatRescue CatsHerding CatsDog MemorialAnimal FriendsStray CatsCat Lady Author:Albert Schweitzer
“'White Rabbit' was mostly done in about two days, the music in about half an hour. The music is a 'Bolero' rip-off and the lyrics a rearrangement of 'Alice in Wonderland.' You take two spectacular hits and throw them together, and it's hard to miss.” TwoHardDoneTogetherHoursWhiteHalfMissingMusic IsRabbitsRipSpectacularTwo DaysWonderland Author:Grace Slick
“Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy, I think there is a fairly clear line of demarcation, but the history of music is full of fusion. Popular and classical music have always found points of contact, of crossing, exchange, both drawing mutual profit.” ThinkingTwoDifferentUniverseFoundLinesClearMusic IsDignityDifficultyDepthProfitPopsDrawingContactArtisticMutualClassical MusicCrossingsFusionHistory Of MusicDifferent Universes Author:Andrea Bocelli