“Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again -- S-E-R-F music.”

— Jello Biafra

Introducing the song "New Feudalism" with The No WTO Combo on (30 November 1999)

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singer and activist 1958

Eric Dolphy (1928–1964) American jazz musician

Said to an audience, as quoted in John Steinbeck Holiday, Vol. 58 (1977), p. 13

“You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.”

Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) Brazilian writer

Source: The Stream of Life

“Who hears music feels his solitude
Peopled at once.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

Balaustion's Adventure, line 323 (1871).
Source: The complete poetical works of Browning

“See the music, hear the dance.”

George Balanchine (1904–1983) Georgian choreographer, dancer and ballet master (1904-1983)

“We'll kill the fatted calf tonight, so stick around,
You're gonna hear electric music, solid walls of sound.”

Elton John (1947) English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist

Bennie and the Jets
Song lyrics, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)

“Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Not noise.”

Charles Mingus (1922–1979) American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader

What Is A Jazz Composer? (1971)
Context: Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Not noise. My children! You do what you want with your own!

“Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.”

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Polish composer

Said to one of his students, according to "Chopin: Pianist and Teacher: As Seen by His Pupils" by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger

“I have absolutely no difficulty in coming out and saying Bach and Beethoven are great composers. You must school young people into great classical music, but you must also allow them to hear other music as well. At one point classical music colonised the high ground. Now we're reaping the backlash for that.”

Joanna MacGregor (1959) British musician

The Times, 21/04/2006
On Classical Music

“Hears the music under the rock
One of these days he'll stop
Don't stop when the music stops.”

Ysabella Brave (1979) American singer

"Such a Quiet Man (original song!)" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HA6bri22Tk, the first original song she posted to YouTube, about which she wrote: "I got bored so I wrote this song tonight. The music, instruments, the lyrics, backup vocals, everything was me. And yes it is TOTALLY WEIRD!!!!!!" (13 May 2007)

“I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.”

George Gershwin (1898–1937) American composer and pianist

Letter to Isaac Goldberg; published in Joan Peyser The Memory of All That (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993) p. 80.

“Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again -- S-E-R-F music.”

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