G. K. Chesterton on Art / Music
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Oscar Wilde on Art / Music
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Jules Combarieu on Art / Music
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
Frank Zappa on Art / Music
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
Groucho Marx on Art / Music
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Samuel Butler on Art / Music
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Edward O. Wilson on Art / Music
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great work of art.
Dawn French on Art / Music
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
Gustav Holst on Art / Music
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
Emma Albani on Art / Music
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.