"There are only two types of music, good and bad."
Buddy Rich
"Assassins!" ~Arturo Toscanini to his orchestra~
"A good quartet is like a good conversation
among friends interacting to each other's ideas"
Stan Get
"The important thing is never to let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries; to continue steadfastly on one's way without letting oneself be either defeated by failure or diverted by applause."
Leonard Bernstein
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench,
a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free,
and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
Hunter S. Thompson
"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it." Groucho Marx
"The only good is knowledge
and the only evil is ignorance."
Socrates