We are stardustBillion-year old carbonAnd we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden

Words suck. I mean, every thing has been said. I can’t remember the last real interesting conversation I’ve had in a long time. Words aren’t as important as the energy derived from music, especially live.

if the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i’ve believed all my life-then what good is this music going to prove to be? what does...

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn’t.

I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn’t have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn’t exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly...

You kind of attribute this magic to music and as you meet the people you realize that they don’t contain the magic. They just channel it a little bit sometimes, but they never possess it....

I asked myself one day, ‘Would it be humane of me to completely destroy my mind and soul for the music?’ I knew immediately that the answer was no, so I knew I had to.

Music is more powerful than reason in the soul. That is also why Plato made music the very first step in his long educational curriculum: good music was to create the harmony of soul that...

If I could be who you wanted, all the time

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

As an artist suffering from insomnia and working from my apartment, I had an artistic freedom to explore and create awesome stuff. I wore a robe and slippers as my work dress code. These are...

If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased;...

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me. The guitar is my conscience, too – whenever I’ve lost my way,...

No one wants to die or even plans to die, at least not when you are young and living life on top of everything, stepping on gold, running the miles with hot chicks on tow,...

We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very...

Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.

Put some muscle into it! Channel your inner Trent Reznor!

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.

Jesus take the wheel

Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

Dance with the Devil

Writing, music, sculpting, painting, and prayer! These are the three things that are most closely related! Writers, musicians, sculptors, painters, and the faithful are the ones who make things out of nothing. Everybody else, they...

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed; it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated...

… And these childrenthat you spit onas they try to change their worldsare immune to your consultations.They’re quite awareof what they’re going through…

That´s the problem with planning a late night supper after the opera, not only does the hero or the heroine die singing, but you end up famished after the last notes of the finale.

Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state

….Charles laughingly observed,’Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It’s just a question of whether you’re talkin’ about a woman or God.

I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy...

real world”. Refuse normalcy. Beauty is everywhere, love is endless, and joy bleeds from our everyday existence. Embrace it. I love all of you, all my friends, family, and community. I am ceaselessly grateful from...

I used to date the lead singer of The Cranberries, but she cheated on me. Turns out she had some turkey on the side.

Kalkbrenner has made me an offer; that I should study with him for three years, and he will make something really – really out of me. I answered that I know how much I lack;...

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin’ to anesthetize the way that you feel.

In elementary school, in my lunchbox, I used to pack a saxophone. I could have been a chef, a culinary artist, and all that jazz.

We are a singularity that makes music out of noise because we must hurry. We make a harvest of loneliness and desiring in the blank wasteland of the cosmos.