Music Philosopher Gifts

"I don't know this one."

Sad Songs.

'There's nothing on.'

"Is it me, or is Jasper Johns a genius?" "Über-genius, Larry. Über!"

"Yes, you have given 100% to this company. But, over the five years you've worked here that's only 20% a year."

"Sarah's grades are excellent. She got A+ in 'Yogi Berra: Philosopher or Fall Guy?,' A in 'Dollars and Scents: An Analysis of Post-Vietnam Perfume Advertising,' A in 'The Final Four as Last Judgment: The N.C.A.A. Tournament from a Religious Perspective,'

"The raw material was all around me: That's how I got started as a sculptor..."

"I condensed my painting to the pure essence of the message. What helps me a lot is the fact that I've got nothing to say at all."

Martin Scorsese Roasts Your Fandom

A man watches TV while wearing a Marshall McLuhan sweatshirt.

Sergei Taneyev

Jackson Pollock makes a mistake: 'Guess I'll have to start over.'

Igor Stravinsky

Oak Tree Painted in 1642

'I loved your argument. When are you planning to perform it again?'

'I have this constant ringing in my ears. I think I have tinnitus.' - 'Does it sound like an 'eeeeeee' or a 'shhhhh'?' - 'It's like the murmer of a thousand forgotten souls quietly lamenting past sorrows.' - 'Hmmm. I don't have a checkbox for that, sadly.

"This song is dedicated to all of you who have been having a hard time deciding between the big bang and steady state theories."

"It's too academic."

"I've been an emerging artist for ten years now..."

Clever youth stating that he considers Shakespeare overrated

Leos Janacek

'I like it.'

Cross section through the Art Virus.

The Thinker Thinks of Toilet Roll.

"Don't ask me. I don't know what 'my country 'tis of thee' means, either."

" 'Perceptual and kinetic art have an intertwined development that cannot be totally disentangled; nevertheless perceptual, optical, or "virtual" movement—which always exists in tension with factual immobility—is an experience of a different order.' "

Richard Taruskin

'If you think it was the best of times call this number now'

"A million monkeys typing for a million years might come up with Hamlet, but they could never direct it."

'I think he's a minimalist.'

Ezra Pound