Bad music is what will ruin music, not the instruments musicians choose to play.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

No one listened to the music, no one cared, drunk or sober; the noise was not meant for entertainment but for the sustaining of a certain psychological atmosphere, the pervasion of space, the dispersal of unseemly silences. So that a man without anything to say and unable to think could still imagine himself at the vortex of an activity, however meaningless.

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

A lidé poslouchají, aby nemusili mluvit, nebo mluví, aby nemusili poslouchat;

I invented the phrase: “Music not to be listened to.” That was my commercial phrase with which I sold Muzak. It was the first music deliberately created to which people were not supposed to listen. It was a new kind of background music. That’s why my mother, who was a fine musician, held it in contempt. She wouldn’t have it in her apartment. Anybody who knows anything about music holds Muzak in contempt.

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

Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.

Or music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
While the music lasts.

La musique est accoutumée à ne point faire ce qu'on veut.

Only sick music makes money today.

Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!

If you need to listen to music while walking, don’t walk; and please don’t listen to music.