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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

— Albert Einstein

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm naturally going to react to that and he'll bring out elements in my musical character that were lying dormant, because I'm relating what he's playing.

— Benny Green

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

— A. R. Rahman

I was stuck in a wheelchair playing this deranged villain. I felt this mass amount of rage at being so confined. I thought, 'What can I do that is the direct opposite of this situation?' The only thing I could think of was that I could sing and dance.

— Kenneth Branagh

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

— Robert Browning

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

— Xenophon

I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.

— Don Henley

If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house.

— Herbie Mann

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

— Charles Hazlewood

✗Opposing Perspectives

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

— William Shakespeare

He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

— Linda McCartney