Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G. K. Chesterton 

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 

Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
Richard Strauss  , on conducting

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 

Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) 

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 

Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
Fred Rogers  , parody of "Row, row, row your boat" on his television show, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
Will Rogers (1879-1935)  , to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard