„My music is not modern, it is merely badly played“

„Life without playing music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music, I get most joy in life out of music.“

—  Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955

„Playing music is something I would like to do my whole life.“

—  Ross Mintzer American musician and performer 1987

From an interview before performing at the 47th Annual Grammy Music Awards in Los Angeles(9 February 2014) http://www.larchmontgazette.com/2005/articles/20050209mintzer.html
2005

„Can you appreciate music without playing it? Yes, you can. You can appreciate baseball without playing it. Many people attend a football game merely for the crowd, the excitement, the color.“

—  Jascha Heifetz Lithuanian violinist 1901 - 1987

„Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.“

—  Anthony Burgess, buch A Clockwork Orange

Quelle: A Clockwork Orange

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

—  Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Algernon, Act I.
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Kontext: Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

„Cosimo: It is only a play… with music? Does God say the same at every death? It is only a play… with music? When I die, will someone say the same? He was only a prince. He died. It was only a play… with music.“

—  Peter Greenaway British film director 1942

The Baby of Mâcon

„Plays are events in time and space. Plays are music. Word music. Visual music. I’ve always thought of plays as a form of composition—of text and the architecture of the experience of the full-length evening…“

—  Caridad Svich American writer 1963

On how she describes plays in “Making Invisible Stories Seen, Heard and Felt Interview with Caridad Svich” http://www.critical-stages.org/3/making-invisible-stories-seen-heard-and-felt-interview-with-caridad-svich/ in The IATC webjournal/Revue web de l'AICT – Autumn 2010: Issue No 3

„If music be the food of love, play on.“

—  Axel Munthe Swedish physician 1857 - 1949

„If music be the food of love, play on.“

—  William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Orsino, Act I, scene i.
Variante: Music, moody food
Of us that trade in love.
Quelle: Twelfth Night (1601)

„Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.“

—  Paul Simon American musician, songwriter and producer 1941

Homeward Bound
Song lyrics, Parsley (1966)

„When I play music, that is my best yoga, the best meditation, the best prayer.“

—  Hariprasad Chaurasia Indian bansuri player 1938

„In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.“

—  Charles Mingus American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader 1922 - 1979

Statement to Nat Hentoff, as quoted in California Rock, California Sound : The Music of Los Angeles and Southern California (1979) by Anthony Fawcett, p. 56; also in “Jazz : Beyond Time and Nations” in The Nat Hentoff Reader (2001), Part 2 : The Passion of Creation, p. 99

„I'd never seen a guy my own age play the piano. It was like sex and musical theatre fused together.“

—  E. Lockhart, Dramarama

Quelle: Dramarama

„I love Pops, I love the way he sings, the way he plays - everything he does, except when he says something against modern-jazz music.“

—  Miles Davis American jazz musician 1926 - 1991

In Playboy to Alex Haley (1962); also in [Milestones: The music and times of Miles Davis since 1960, Jack, Chambers, Beech Tree Books, 1983, 9780688046460, 209], [The Playboy Interviews, Alex, Haley, Murray, Fisher, Ballantine, 1993, 9780345383006, 15], [The Miles Davis companion: four decades of commentary, Gary, Carner, Gary, Carner, Schirmer Books, 1996, 9780028646121, 19], and in [Miles Davis and American Culture, Missouri Historical Society Press Series, Gerald Lyn, Early, Missouri History Museum, 2001, 9781883982386, 205]
1960s

„My background in music came from me playing drums and piano as a young child. My grandmother was a pianist and I was influenced by her and my parents were playing rock records which influenced my drumming. I was a fan of film scores, rock, classical, jazz, and hip-hop in my early years and tried to learn as much about each of those genres as possible. I began writing music in a serious way in my teen years while I was playing in various bands and orchestras.“

—  Brian Tyler American composer, producer, conductor, and film producer 1972

Interview with Brian Tyler https://8dio.com/2012/12/05/interview-with-brian-tyler/ (December 5, 2012)

„One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack. Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head that only I can hear.“

—  Maurice Jarre French composer 1924 - 2009

This quote was actually crafted by University College Dublin student Shane Fitzgerald. Shortly after Jarre's death, Fitzgerald uploaded https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maurice_Jarre&type=revision&diff=280558491&oldid=280527998 the false quote to Wikipedia to test "how our globalised, increasingly internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news," according to the Associated Press. "The sociology major's made-up quote…flew straight on to dozens of US blogs and newspaper websites in Britain, Australia and India. They used the fabricated material, Fitzgerald said, even though administrators at the free online encyclopedia quickly caught the quote's lack of attribution and removed it, but not quickly enough to keep some journalists from cutting and pasting it first. A full month went by and nobody noticed the editorial fraud. So Fitzgerald told several media outlets in an email and the corrections began." The Guardian and The Herald "are among the only publications to make a public mea culpa," the Associated Press continues. See " Student hoaxes world's media with fake Wiki quote http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/web/student-hoaxes-worlds-media-with-fake-wiki-quote/2009/05/12/1241893953955.html," The Sydney Morning Herald (12 May 2009).
Misattributed

„People dancing all in the street
See the rhythm all in their feet
Life is good, wild and sweet.
Let the music play on (play on, play on)
Feel it in your heart
And feel it in your soul
Let the music take control.“

—  Lionel Richie American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor 1949

All Night Long (All Night).
Song lyrics, Can't Slow Down (1983)

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

—  Danielle Trussoni, buch Angelology

Quelle: Angelology

„Life? or Theater?' - A Play with Music - C. S.“

—  Charlotte Salomon German painter 1917 - 1943

Charlotte's 1st introduction page, related to image JHM no. 4155-1 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charlotte_Salomon_-_JHM_4155.jpg: 'Life? or Theater..', p. 41
written in brush - her title is indicating the close relation for her between drama, music, text and painting