„Formalism is music that people don’t understand at first hearing.“

„I could hear the band playing a cheery sort of music. I don’t like jazz music as a rule, but I was glad to hear it that night. I think it helped us all.“

—  Steve Turner British writer 1949

Zdroj: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 143

„Who hears music feels his solitude
Peopled at once.“

—  Robert Browning English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era 1812 - 1889

Balaustion's Adventure, line 323 (1871).
Zdroj: The complete poetical works of Browning

„And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.“

—  Roald Dahl, kniha Matilda

Zdroj: Matilda

„We do not confine people to looking at poor pictures and listening to poor music. We urge them to look at as many good pictures and hear as much good music as they can, convinced that this is the way in which they will come to understand and appreciate art and music.“

—  Robert Maynard Hutchins philosopher and university president 1899 - 1977

Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)

„Most people don’t listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By…“

—  Randall Jarrell poet, critic, novelist, essayist 1914 - 1965

“The Taste of the Age”, p. 12
A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables (1962)

„I can’t talk to you about music because you don’t know anything about music. I can talk to you about politics or sociology and all that peripheral stuff, but I can’t talk to you about music. There’s not enough information in common that I could say to you so you’d be able to understand. Besides, the people who read OUI don’t give a fuck about music anyway.“

—  Frank Zappa American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer 1940 - 1993

Oui interview (1979)

„Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to … juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear … Mother Goose rhymes.“

—  Elvis Presley American singer and actor 1935 - 1977

Pop Chronicles, Show 7 - The All American Boy: Enter Elvis and the rock-a-billies. Part 1 http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19754/m1/, interview recorded 1956 http://web.archive.org/web/20110615153027/http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/o-s.

„See the music, hear the dance.“

—  George Balanchine Georgian choreographer, dancer and ballet master (1904-1983) 1904 - 1983

„Everyone cheats. Only artists don’t. They don’t fool people and they aren’t fooled. They are outside all that. Nobody can understand them.“

—  Bram van Velde Dutch painter 1895 - 1981

1960's

„We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.“

—  Brandon Sanderson American fantasy writer 1975

Zdroj: Steelheart

„What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?“

—  Logan Pearsall Smith British American-born writer 1865 - 1946

Age and Death
Afterthoughts (1931)

„People don’t automatically appreciate the difference between listening and hearing any more than they do the difference between looking and seeing.“

—  Ivor Tiefenbrun Scottish businessman 1946

Interview in Audio Perfectionist Journal http://www.auriclepublishing.com/page0/assets/Ivor%20%20Interview%20for%20web.pdf.
2006

„I don’t think many people appreciate silence or realize that it is as close to music as you can get.“

—  Toni Morrison, kniha God Help the Child

Zdroj: God Help the Child

„When people hear music that is spiritual it gets through. Music that is Godlike and loving gets through. I don’t have any power in this world, but I have spiritual power. I think God gave me my music and my talent. I’m trying to get across a feeling of spirituality; I think I have a spiritual influence on people.“

—  Brian Wilson American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer 1942

OffBeat interview (2005)

„Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again -- S-E-R-F music.“

—  Jello Biafra singer and activist 1958

Introducing the song "New Feudalism" with The No WTO Combo on (30 November 1999)

„When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.“

—  Sherwood Smith American fantasy and science fiction writer 1951

„Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.“

—  Anton Webern Austrian composer and conductor 1883 - 1945

The Path to the New Music

„Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it.“

—  Danielle Trussoni, kniha Angelology

Zdroj: Angelology

„Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.“

—  Ludwig Van Beethoven German Romantic composer 1770 - 1827

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