For you can’t hear Irish tunes without knowing you’re Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor.

I was nothing but a failure. A fucked-up, broken shame.I was nothing but this emptiness. A shell ruined by fame.Don’t be afraid to shatter, baby, if that will set you free.I’ll find you in the...

If you wanna make friends at the ATM, do the creep.

If you don’t feel an overwhelming sense of emotion when you listen to music, then you’re listening to the wrong kind.

I am ready, I am ready, I am fine. I am fine, I am fine, I am fine.” I played it again. I was not fine.

A tapping foot isn’t the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think.

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music...

I suppose what I mean is, I never felt like I was part of a gang. No, that’s the wrong word. Part of a MOVEMENT! That’s it. It feels like there’s a swirling, shining wind...

Lose your dream, you lose your mind.

The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand,...

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,that Joplin had the last drunken throat,that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.

So don’t you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

I try to live without you,everytime I do I feel dead.

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleasedWith melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;Some chord in unison with what we hearIs touch’d within us, and...

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

I think I’m supposed to “take a sad song and make it better,” but that’s beyond my musical ability

Main article: Music education A Suzuki violin recital with students of varying ages. The incorporation of music training from preschool to post secondary education is common in North America and Europe. Involvement in music is...

Words of mankind limited in meaning to describe the enchantment that illuminates from aura of a dancer.

I heard in my own voice the tulmult of a young man playig a role, uneasily, repackaging black R&B music from America, relying on gimmicky outfits, and pretending to be wild & free when in...

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

Brother Jimmy, said Joey the Lips. – I’m worried. – About Dean. – Wha’ abou’ Dean? – He told me he’s been listening to jazz. – What’s wrong with tha’? Jimmy wanted to know. –...

In the spring, the carpet flowered amid the green, and as wind blew, it looked like music on the ground.

It’s old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than...

Music is love.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

If you get all tangled up, just tango on.

Then, as tonight, he had felt lonely, but soon had learnt the bounty of such loneliness. The music had breathed to him its message, to him alone amongst these ordinary folk, whispered its gentle secret....

Her voice is raw. She sings from the deepest cracks of her heart and her soul. When she closes her eyes, I know she has lost herself in the music. – Unrequited

I remembered that Beethoven’s symphonies had sometimes been given names… they should have call [the Fifth] the Vampire, because it simply refused to lie down and die.

There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had

I’d spend hours in HMVs, Virgin Megastores and second-hand record shops staffed by greasy-haired 40-year-olds dressed as 20-year-olds, listening to contemporary music of every genre – Britrock, heavy maiden, gang rap, brakebeat. And I came...

Good Music creates an intersection between heaven and the soul

I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.

I wish that I could fly into the sky and touch the clouds with my hands.

Don’t be afraid, just play the music.

He was making music – Howells, Finzi, Holst – so you could see the sounds in the serried air.Serried. Then just as suddenly empty when his sound-proof right hand closed off the notes.

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant...

I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

I didn’t do music to live; I lived so that I could do music.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

Some guy said to me: Don’t you think you’re too old to sing rock n’ roll?I said: You’d better check with Mick Jagger.

The Doctrine is the Ecstasy

I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, ‘You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take...

When I’m on stage, I’m trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don’t go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

Le Requiem de Mozart. Un souffle de l’au-delà y plane. Comment croire, après une pareille audition, que l’univers n’ait aucun sens? Il faut qu’il en ait un. Que tant de sublime se résolve dans le...

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors…Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat…What then was music created for?Was it to drown...

I like great music, but who doesn’t? Oh yeah, deaf people.