I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone’s teeth get cleaner? (ridiculing the “Tipper Sticker” the PRMC “parental warning” stickers essentially forced on the music industry)
Music Quotes
Don’t get annoyed if your neighbor plays his hi-fi at two o’clock in the morning. Call him at four and tell him how much you enjoyed it.
He has Van Gogh’s ear for music. (about Cliff Osmond)
The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.
Much of our modern music makes you feel like clapping your hands – over your ears!
The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.
If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.
Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.
Two years of close association with some of the best, as well as some of the worst, tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues. (On editing The English Hymnal)
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of speech, freedom of religious thought, and the right to due process for composers, performers and retailers are imperiled if the PMRC and the major labels consummate this nasty bargain.
