Every single one of them with their eyes open and on him, their mouths, too, halfway screaming, halfway begging. Offering themselves to him, because the call was irresistible despite being recognizable. They were moths who...

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”–Charlie Gordon

I’d like to make the argument that The Cars were the first garage band.

Cher and share alike. At least in sound. Most of the decisions I make are sound, exactly like Beethoven when he wrote and discarded his 10th symphony.

Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there...

Ancient philosophy was framed by prodigies,Aristotle, Plato and Socrates.And even though their thoughts were deemed the aristocratic voice,they also had a thing for little boys.Katherine the Great so it’s been said,needed large animals to be...

It was as if his song was one voice, calling out into the darkness until it was answered by another, harmonizing with its own unique voice and emotion to create something even more beautiful than...

You know what punk is? a bunch of no-talent guys who really, really want to be in a band. Nobody reads music, nobody plays the mandolin, and you’re too dumb to write songs about mythology...

Mellow is the man who knows what he’s been missing

I’d wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.

Eternity hums with every beating heart, with every up-lifted voice, with the crash of waves, the whirl of wind across the shifting dunes, the cry of sea birds, and the trumpets of heavenly angels.

Michael [Hutchence] is hands down one of the greatest frontmen in music. The style, the voice—all of it. Any way that I was ever influenced by him really comes down to small, pale imitations compared...

I live to inspire, not start the fire.

I don’t know how you hear music. I imagine that if you like music at all then it has, in your head, some kind of third dimension to it, a dimension suggesting space as well...

It’s music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you’re being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you’re carrying out...

I’d love to…but only with you.

They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.

Never Let The Roosters Wake You!

You can’t take the sky from me.

Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I’m going to be immoderate–and volatile–I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.

And I remember when I met him, it was so clear that he was the only one for me. We both knew it, right away. And as the years went on, things got more difficult...

Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

The man who has many answersis often foundin the theaters of informationwhere he offers, graciously,his deep findings.While the man who has only questions,to comfort himself, makes music.

Like almost all of Beefheart’s recorded work, it was not even “ahead” of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic...

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

Have you ever listened to a song from a long time ago; from your past; a song that was filled with so many memories tied to it, that you felt it so deeply- that it...

Your iPod is whispering in your ear. It was keeping you company, but now it’s like a good friend turned bad […] It is turning your life into a dark, looping rock opera.

I knew it was coming. I knew they didn’t have the nerve.Three days in and they’ve got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only...

Songs have taught me more about life than school ever has and how to follow my ambitions no matter what they are and how to live my life no matter the trade-off.

Our musicians in residence carry this belief into the classroom. They don’t think of children’s self-esteem as so fragile that it will be shattered by the suggestion that the child guessed wrong or jumped to...

I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by...

You can’t be like pop stars, but you can be part of their story. You can be their fan.

Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic.

There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.

Life goes on, brah!

A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.

So no one told your life wasGonna be this wayYour job’s a jokey brokeYour love life’s D.O.A.It’s like you’re always stuckIn second gearWhen it hasn’t been your dayYour week, your monthOr even your year but,I’ll...

This ain’t the heartbreak hotel even though I know it well.Those no shows should you tell in the way you hold yourself.Don’t you fret should you get another cancellation, give me a chance and I’ll...

I relinquished myself to existence pure and simple, thinking absolutely nothing—as if my mind were merely an echo chamber for the music, as if it contained only ether or at most a vaguely pleasant odor...

Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could...

Maybe you’ll change Abandon all your wicked waysMake amends and start anew againMaybe you’ll seeAll the wrongs you did to meAnd start all over, start all over again.Who am i kidding?Now, lets not get overzealous...

Music fills the infinite between two souls

Every style of dance is a tribute to the elements of the spirit.

I won’t forget when I couldn’t go to bed with the lights offWhen I heard that voice call me in for the nightI remember when love was just a word and not a fightAll I...

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and...

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.

There were no ideas in music, only touch and instinct and sometimes grace—the mechanical tools—and that among those who were given the tools, only a few, a scant few, would be able to tell you...