The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal… It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of...

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes,...

And I knowThe scariest part is letting goCause love is a ghost you can’t control

Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano. What Robert Schumann did was sit back down at the piano and play...

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don’t care about anymore.

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

After I had been studying with him for two years, Schoenberg said, “In order to write music, you must have a feeling for harmony.” I explained to him that I had no feeling for harmony....

Anything can become music if listened to long enough

I am a black woman/ the music of my song/ some sweet arpeggio of tears/ is written in a minor key/ and I/ can be heard humming in the night/ Can be heard/ humming/ in...

Bruce has always been so nice to me, which is crazy, because he’s one of my heroes. I’ll never forget being at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony the year Bruce and Paul...

The heart has a heart of its own.

These tears I’m wailing,I spill not without reason.Remove them, my dearest love.Take me to the place I’ve been dreaming of,where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonelyand they whisper,just very softly,Please be mine, Dearest Love.

I want what we all want,” said Carl. “To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.

We fought back with our music; it was the only weapon we had.

We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead.

The music was more than music- at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous. Those powerful moments of true knowledge that...

There is one secret place…it is beautiful and peaceful, where gentle water flows, and most beautiful garden grows, yet, nobody could ever go to…You reach deep within my soul drawing out all the dreams that...

it’s ok to say you’ve got a weak spot,you don’t always have to be on top.Better to be hated then loved(x3) for what you’re not.

Writing is my oxygen. Music is my carbon dioxide.

This is one of my favorite things about the Underground: the crashing of the cymbals, the screeching guitar riffs, music that moves into the blood and makes you feel hot and wild and alive.

To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life...

When all that you’ve tried, leaves nothing but holes inside.

Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy.

Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long!

String them together and you have a melody. You have a story. So, Saylor, what story do you want to tell?

The music of rebellion makes you want to rageBut it’s made by millionaires who are nearly twice your age

Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It’s a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched and full of different voices starting at different notes and...

A poet is a musician that can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart, and some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no...

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

You have to feel the mix and you have to feel the work and the sweet somehow which somebody is investing in that moment in the way that you can really feel the passion.

When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you’re breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and...

At first the solitudecharmed me like a prelude,but so much music wounded me.

Play always as if in the presence of a master.

it’s just pure nonsense to ruin a hardcore genre with gay synths, chopped chipmunk vocals and cheesy poppy shit just so you can make a shitload of money and be an icon to a fanbase...

I’ve always felt that the performance of a raag resembles a novel – or at least the kind of novel I’m attempting to write. You know,’ he continued, extemporizing as he went along, ‘first you...

We’re not into music. We’re into chaos.

For the children around the world without a home, say a prayer tonight.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger” – Billy Connolly

God sent as a revelation the gift of dance so his creation may experience one of the divine pleasures of paradise.

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

People are talking about immigration, emigration and the rest of the fucking thing. It’s all fucking crap. We’re all human beings, we’re all mammals, we’re all rocks, plants, rivers. Fucking borders are just such a...

In the world of Big Macks Starbucks coffee and oversized SUVS it was business as usual snort and go

A brilliant mind was first a listener that observed the actions of the people that loved and hated them, then found a way to express their feelings, when real communication was lost.

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

When we are attuned to our inner voice, life becomes art and art becomes life.

The song in me for you is forever musical

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

Make money make moves.

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn’t yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to...

When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.