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A selection of music related quotes found in and around the world of the web, enjoy!

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. J S Bach

Music is a moral law – it gives wings to the mind, a soul to the universe, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, a life to everything. Plato

You have to stick with it. Sometimes you are going to be so frustrated you want to give up the guitar. But all of this is just part of learning, because if you stick with it, you are going to be rewarded. Jimi Hendrix

Classical music is the kind that you keep thinking will turn into a tune.

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity the sound achieved by the pig. Alfred Hitchcock

In rap music, the ‘c’ is silent.

Rock and Roll doesn’t create psychos, it helps psychos be more creative.

Music is the poetry of the air. Richter

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another. Frank Zappa

Disco is to music what Etch-A-Sketch is to art.

Don’t waste money on expensive iPods. Simply think of your favourite tune and hum it. If you want to ‘switch tracks’, simply think of another song you like and hum that instead.

Banging two pistachio nutshells together gives the impression that a very small horse is approaching.

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.

Men, when listening to your favourite CD, simply turn up the sound to the volume you desire; then turn it down three notches. This will save your wife from having to do it.

If you have any requests… keep them to yourselves… we don’t play requests. Buddy Rich

If this word ‘music’ is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound. John Cage

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. Confucius

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music. Ursula K. Le Guin

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. Igor Stravinsky

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. Robert Benchley

Aside from purely technical analysis, nothing can be said about music, except when it is bad; when it is good, one can only listen and be grateful. W. H. Auden

If it’s too loud, you’re too old.

Many musicians are easily excited into joy, and easily depressed into gloom. This comes from their sensitive nature without which they could not be musicians. Percy Scholes

Others…

Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget. Robin Williams

You can lead a horticulture but you can’t make her think. Dorothy Parker

But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world
without them. Sherlock Holmes

Here’s one for all you UNIX savvy types…

UNIX Sex
{
look; find; talk; grep; touch; finger; find; flex; unzip; mount; workbone; fsck; yes; gasp; fsck; yes; eject; umount; makeclean; zip; split; done; exit
}

Some interesting thoughts…

Why is chopsticks one of the easiest songs to play on the piano, but the hardest thing to eat with?

Why do dogs sniff other dog’s bottoms to say hello, why don’t they just bark in their face or something?

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? Steven Wright

Why do people with closed minds always open their mouths?

Things are always darkest just before they go pitch black.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they’d never been born the first time?

Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak.

The only thing more frightening than a programmer with a screwdriver or a hardware engineer with a program is a user with a pair of wire cutters and the root password. Elizabeth Zwicky

If your neighbour has a satellite dish pointing in your direction, this focuses harmful “secret arrows” onto your home. Wait until night, then take the dish down.