A Quote by Oscar Wilde

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Oscar Wilde

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Music Bad Bad Music Good Good Music Listen People Plays Talk

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Oscar Wilde
Irish - Poet
October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

My dad plays guitar in the church band, so it's like music as a service. He plays at old-people homes, so that's like music as a gift.

Lucy Dacus

Lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays.

Stephen Fry

It's too easy to underestimate your audience. But it's not rocket science: bad plays don't get people on seats; good plays do.

Sarah Lancashire

As soon as a song plays, people want to skip to the next one. That's not how you judge a good or a bad music. You have to understand it, give it time. You have to feel.

Jubin Nautiyal

We went from being thought of and talked about as "a band that plays a so-and-so style of music" (a grunge band, a stoner band, etc) to "a band that plays music with a certain sensibility or style to it". I'm not able to see quite what that is, but it's there and some people like it a lot.

Bent Saether

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

William Lyon Phelps

A lot of what you do is about how you look. You're a good-looking guy who plays music, and you can't do anything about what happens because of that. If people say, "He's cute. I'm going to go buy his album," hopefully they'll like the music, too.

Evan Dando

There's a certain fast-food approach to the whole music thing that's changed the role it plays for us all. You are doing it while you are doing other things. Not that that is new - people have had music on in the background as long as there has been music.

Tom Waits

Through most of my life, music has been like a radio that plays and plays in my head.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.

Al Madrigal

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

Theo James

I played the vina until my heart turned into the same instrument. Then I offered this instrument to the Divine Musician, the only muscian existing. Since then I have become His flute, and when He chooses He plays His music. The people give me credit for this music which, in reality, is not due to me, but to the Musician who plays his own instrument.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.

Maya Angelou

In the digital age we're in now, with satellite radio and Pandora and stuff like that, it's not about, "I listen to this kind of music." It's about, "I listen to good music and bad music."