I only got seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use.
-- James Brown

There is too much sax and violins in music.
-- Jim Loy

I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.
-- Eric Morecambe (as spoken to conductor André Previn in a tv sketch)

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
-- Lily Tomlin

Like two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof.
-- Thomas Beecham (on the Harpsichord)

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
-- Jimi Hendrix

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley