Bad Music Quotes:

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.

- Sir Arthur Sullivan

topic: Forever, Records, Bad Music, Hideous

Bad music disturbs me, but wonderful music disturbs me even more.

- Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

topic: Wonderful, Bad Music

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

- William F. Buckley, Jr.

topic: Music, Years, Piano, Music Life, Bad Music

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

- Ernest Newman

topic: Music, Found, Composer, Bad Music, Composing Music

Life is too short to play bad music

- Bob Brozman

topic: Life Is Too Short, Guitar, Play, Bad Music

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Music, Witty, Bad Music, Musical Life

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Music, Two, Kind, Bad Music

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

- Peter Warlock

source: Peter Warlock (1998). “The Occasional Writings of Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock): Early music”

topic: Modern, Music Is, Significance, Bad Music, Old Music

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Music, Conversation, Duty, Bad Music

The only music I don't like is bad music.

- Quincy Jones

topic: Bad Music

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.

- Fran Lebowitz

source: Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.148, Vintage

topic: Two, Want, Kind, Bad Music

I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.

- Bernie Taupin

topic: Ignorance, Patriotic, Simple, Bad Music

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

- Isaac Stern

topic: Musical, Musician, Bad Music

I don't believe in good music and bad music anymore. I'm through with that phase of my life. Sometimes I just wanna feel good, so I put on a good record. But mostly I'm more of a businessman than a music fan, so I'm listening to music in terms of, is this effective or not effective?

- Questlove

source: Source: www.believermag.com

topic: Believe, Feel Good, Listening, Bad Music, Good Records

Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained.

- Carlo Grante

topic: Granted, Results, Music Is, Bad Music

Pop music is a difficult term to define. I think about good music and bad music. Good music is good music whatever origin it comes from.

- Nina Persson

topic: Thinking, Pops, Difficult, Bad Music

I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.

- Kurt Weill

topic: Light, Differences, Serious, Bad Music

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

- Ruggiero Ricci

topic: Piano, People, Pieces, Bad Music, Interpreter

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

- Pepe Romero

topic: Order, Modern, Good And Bad, Bad Music, Modern Music

Some say the word 'pop' is a derogatory word to say 'not important' - I do not accept that. If the word 'classic' is the word to say 'boring,' I do not accept. There is good and bad music.

- Luciano Pavarotti

topic: Important, Classic, Boring, Bad Music, Derogatory

For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.

- Sir Arthur Sullivan

topic: Forever, Records, May, Bad Music

I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.

- April Winchell

topic: Funny, Cute, Music, Bad Music, Cute Boyfriend

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.

- Carlo Grante

topic: Strong, Grammar, Music Is, Bad Music

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

- Nick Cave

topic: Art, Thinking, Rocks, Bad Music

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

- Pat Metheny

topic: Jazz, Form, Audience, Bad Music

If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or not smoke, drink or not drink, there is no good reply you can give to people who say, More important than the body is the mind and the soul, and man hurts himself much more by reading bad books, by listening to bad music and looking at bad movies. Therefore it is the duty of the government to prevent people from committing those faults. And, as you know, for many hundreds of years governments and authorities velieved that it was their duty.

- Ludwig von Mises

source: Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.22, Ludwig von Mises Institute

topic: Hurt, Freedom, Book, Bad Music

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

- Renzo Piano

source: Renzo Piano (1999). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1998: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Prize : Presented to Renzo Piano”

topic: Block, Book, Opposites, Bad Music

I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early '80s and lots of hair bands. I find it utterly impossible to love a song until I know every single word, so listening to live music or new bands is pretty much out.

- Lauren Weisberger

topic: Song, Hair, Ipods, Bad Music, Hair Bands

You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn't great.

- Aimee Mann

topic: Play, Needs, Limits, Bad Music, Dough

Bad music can make you weak.

- Ry Cooder

topic: Guitar, Weak, Bad Music

With The Pogues, at least the first three albums I'll stand by completely, yeah? Because I was in artistic control then, yeah? And the last couple of albums I'll stand by anything that's got my name on it, yeah? But I'll stand by anything that is on The Popes' albums, you know? I wouldn't put stuff out that I didn't like. I don't put out bad music. And I can tell the difference. I know that.

- Shane MacGowan

topic: Couple, Names, Differences, Bad Music

In a way, to have whatever people talk about as "crossover success," I think it means you start making bad music. I mean, when I'm flipping through the channels and see the VMAs or something, I don't really see any music there.

- Conor Oberst

topic: Mean, Thinking, People, Bad Music

A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene.

- Joel Surnow

source: "Christopher Meloni and Writer/Director Joel Surnow Talk SMALL TIME, Returning to a Script from 1976, Casting Process, SIN CITY 2, and SURVIVING JACK". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

topic: Good Movie, Dramatic, Scene, Bad Music

In the digital age we're in now, with satellite radio and Pandora and stuff like that, it's not about, "I listen to this kind of music." It's about, "I listen to good music and bad music."

- Eric Church

source: "Eric Church Interview: Star Talks Loyalty Of Country Fans, Next Album + More At Lollapalooza". Interview with Dave Kim, tasteofcountry.com. August 14, 2013.

topic: Bad Music, Digital Age, Pandora

It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

- Avey Tare

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Creating, Listening, Environmental, Bad Music, Creating Music

Emo is pathetic. It's a tired attempt at making bad music cool, all while rocking dumb haircuts and unisexual belts. Furthermore, adding the suffix '-core' to a description doesn't make it innovative. It makes you look like a tool with no imagination.

- Corey Taylor

topic: Emo, Tired, Imagination, Bad Music

A movie's a movie - you know I'm a massive old film buff - but it's still something to me, music: I can still close my eyes like I was when I was a teenager, and it can still make me weep or make me angry or make me, even if it's bad music, crack up.

- Karen Elson

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Teenager, Eye, Cracks, Bad Music, Make Me Angry