Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church’s greatest ornament.

There were a lot of one-hit wonders in the 90s. I was one of them, though mine was just a fender bender and I left before the cops showed up.

There’s an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I’ll sabotage the hell out of them just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

When I sing, it sounds like I’m gargling spaghetti. Is it any wonder that women lust after me and mail me their panties? (Mail to: Jarod Kintz/12358 Fibonacci Way/Jacksonville, Fl 32258)

You can’t compare the taste of organic and non organic fruits and vegetables. Organic tastes like a ten-minute trumpet solo in your mouth, and non organic tastes like a thirty second tape recording that’s been...

For mile after mile the same melodic phrase rose up in my memory. I simply couldn’t get free of it. Each time it had a new fascination for me. Initially imprecise in outline, it seemed...

What’s the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four.

Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.

For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

Life is something that no one can teach you,You have to learn it.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of...

Why does Beethoven appeal and continue to appeal? Other than the obvious (his having written great music), Beethoven communicates a credo so effectively that the listener finds the courage he needs to reaffirm his own...

I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Brian came in heavy at that moment on his guitar, the rapid, high-pitched squeal ranging back and forth as his fingers flew along the frets. As the intro’s tempo grew more rapid, Bekka heard Derek’s...

God, come down, if you’re really there -Well, you’re the one who claims to care!

Music promotes spiritual, physical and emotional well-being.

It could be why you’re still single.

She had her sonar continually set for excuses to entertain, to bring together influential and powerful people in a mix that hummed, sizzled, throbbed, and sometimes burst into flames. But I was delighted to be...

Whoa, you got my head in the cloudsWhoa, you got me thinking out loudThe more you dream about me the more I believeThat nothing’s ever out of reachSo dream, dream, dream

Life is the music of your soul; all you need to do is to listen hard

..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks’s “Landslide,” especially the lyric: “I’ve been afraid of changing, because I’ve built my life around you.” I think a good test to...

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

They keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V.And you think you’re so clever and classless and freeBut you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

People are strange when you’re a stranger.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..

It’s more important to stand up for someone who can’t stand up for herself,” he had answered.Rocky Ryan speaking with his father.

So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described, be funnelled into his soul through his ears, and gives up all his...

My personal philosophy is that you do art to experience emotion that you don’t have the luxury of experiencing in real life.

I am very proud of the fact that 20 years [sic] on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a result of ‘Meat is Murder’. I think that is quite literally rock music changing someone’s...

Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do...

You are what you love, not who loves you.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Freedom’s just a word todayFreedom’s just a wordWhen someone takes your word awayIt’s seldom ever heardSo take a sentence full of things you’re not supposed to sayCarry on, but don’t write them down or you’ll...

I’ll probably paint on this piano after I compose, for that will inspire me to make more awesome works.

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più,...

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

I believe that life is all about perception and timing. That good things come to those who act and that life’s about more than collecting a paycheck. I believe that the only person you’re destined...

When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a ‘ratchet’ bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp’s mansion.

The Element of Surprise is their in every day,It’s when you wake up.

Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation.

And then the lights went low, and our song began.The song I’d been working on since I’d arrived on the island. The one that morphed into something else entirely, something I never intended it to...

As long as the focus is on God the style of the music is irrelevant.

As one old gentleman put it, ” Son, I don’t care if you’re stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you’re all right with me. It’s the music we...

Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions.

As a songwriter, I’m gathering clues and possibilities all the time, whether I see a piano that day or not. I’ve tried to explain to people how I collect these dispatches, because I think anybody...

A musician’s or artist’s responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth,