Any good music must be an innovation.

The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. One may see this even in the case of idiots, with IQs below 20 and the extremest motor incompetence and...

As Steve draws me closer to the band, all I can see is a frenzied mass of seething, writhing people, like a many-headed sea snake, grinding, waving their arms, stamping their feet, jumping. No rules,...

I’m wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it’s stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.

Well, God knows you’re barely standing but you’ve got to carry this heavy load.

Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection of sounds, for someone else’s words and notes.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

Music without passion is merely noise. A life without passion? You may as well be dead.

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.

I had enough of a story churning in my head that combined all the elements of the day—the interview, the concert, the after-party’s private session—when he put his guitar away and asked me if I...

I don’t know notes or octaves or the difference between sharp and flat, but I know music makes everything more.

Your life is your song, sing it loud!

Although it was only a single instrument, each note had the peculiar echoed quality of a thousand harmonics voiced together. There was a whisper behind the strongest note and a shout beneath the softest, and...

You can’t speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!

You sit there in your heartache Waiting on some beautiful boy to To save you from your old ways You play forgiveness Watch him now, here he comesHe doesnt look a thing like Jesus But...

I’m full of dust and guitars…

He said that the principal function of music was to organize the details into harmonies that were intended to make us forget that there was randomness all around us. The same, he said, could be...

The only justification for looking down on anyone, is that you’re going to stop and pick them up.

Life is like music on a scale, moving up and down. When your life is over, you have written your song.

If you’re feeling discouraged and defeated—don’t quit. Play on, hope on, and move forward. The music you play—even in the midst of incredible darkness—can and will turn the tide of your own battles.

If the power of love is in your heart then dance away to a universe beyond the stars.

Dance is the guide of the spirit’s journey to the stairway of heaven.

because some thingssometimesaren’t ours to hold,but just beautiful to listen to.

I don’t really want fame and fortune; I just want to enjoy playing my music for people that enjoy hearing it.

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn’t need music; lyrics do.

that music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even...

I salute to you Commanderand I sneeze’Cause I have Nowan AllergyTo your policies it seemsWhere have we gone wrong America?Mr. Lincoln we can’t seemto find you anywhere out of the millionsFrom the desertsTo the mountainsOver...

There’s that thing that can happen to you when you meet somebody and you don’t consider them extraordinary at all and then they do something like play the cello or write amazing poetry or sing...

It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock’n’roll band.

That lady has a piano.It’s nice, but it’s not the running of riversOr the murmuring trees make ..Who needs a piano?It’s better to have earsAnd love Nature.

She wasn’t actually speaking to me, she was singing a kind of lullaby of talk. But, eventually, the music stopped.

Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was the symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.

…music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

She knew this music–knew it down to the very core of her being–but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had still always been there inside her, waiting to be woken. It grew from...

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know, it doesn’t seem fair that I’m living for something I can’t even define, but there you are, right there,...

Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was by no means an invisible man. He was ubiquitous and palpable, both in a physical and...

I must find you. So I travel to the depths of hell and conquer perverse monsters and repulsive demons and the deceitful vicious devil himself to find the truth.

I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

Im okay Im okay now. But you really need to listen to me ’cause im telling you the truth I mean this im okay Trust me… Im not okay …Well okay im not okay. Im...

The Music blows wherever Music pleases, you hear it’s sound, but you cannot tell where the Music comes from or where the Music is going.

Never compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.

The world is full of poetry. ~ The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

Unhappiness where’s when I was young, And we didn’t give a damn, ‘Cause we were raised, To see life as fun and take it if we can.

What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?

We can all dance when we find music that we love.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can’t give you a formula for that.

Where words fail, music speaks.