Ruggiero Ricci Quotes

To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

The right notes mean more than 1,000 mph arpeggios.

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

Great music is great music, period.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.

In my mind, there's this one 'super genre,' which is the only genre that matters, and that's the super genre of good music.

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore', and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.

I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.