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...

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

There’s something to say about inspiration – when it comes into your life…the feeling is insatiable.

It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with all the secret stories of the earth.

And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever

Music. It’s not about those things. It’s about a feeling. It’s about expressing yourself. It’s about letting go.

Life’s greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.

You can’t live life being second best.

Sometimes in the great soundtrack of our lives there are no words, there are only emotions; I believe this is why God gave us classical music.

One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as...

We can be heroes just for one day

Music helps to forgetThis forsaken tomb,That is my abodeCellars downFar belowUnder the ground, …

Scattered among these things are reminders that sound once existed: a metronome, a drumming pad, a guitar pick, a trumpet mouthpiece, a music stand, a tuning fork, a block of rosin…The older instruments bear the...

Gina was beautiful like a sunset. You see it and you think of how beautiful it is, and then it’s over and you move on. But Trista was beautiful like a song. The kind of...

In the end we’re all just chalk lines on the concrete Drawn only to be washed away For the time that I’ve been given I am what I am

And the rain drops kept falling like the sweetest musicleaving tears on the glass,which is what music does to memost of the timebut silence too. and rain.

There is no such thing as happy music.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

Hardcore without punk isn’t music, it’s a genre of porn. And punk isn’t a genre of music, it’s a thought process.

Mr. Mancini had a singular talent for making me uncomfortable. He forced me to consider things I’d rather not think about – the sex of my guitar, for instance. If I honestly wanted to put...

Take’th my temple and cut it into little stars, placed carefully to the face of heaven and the world will shine.

Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way

Without music, life would be a mistake.

She started intensely praying and Bible reading and religious music. She was commanded in an extraordinary and compelling way to cut off her own legs, arms and head and give them to God.

Sad, slow music in the small hours of the morning isn’t just sad and slow music. It’s a narration. And through the myriad of morning dew, we are the twinkling stars that fade with the...

I had a dream about you. You’d never been in an elevator before, and I’d never been in love. I said I could help you, and you said you could help me. I got excited...

I make music like I make love—in a group. OK, so I’m not in a band, and I sing alone in the shower.

When there is a crack in trust in a relationship, then the bond of the union is at risk

I play chicken with the train

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture, Italian literature and art. Musically he studied the scores of the great masters. At the end of the...

AC/DC is very easy to miao along to!

A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a message outside and a message inside, and...

The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God….Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention...

We are all valuable. Humanity needs our individual services.

When I smoke pot, it makes me want to hide under the bed with a box of graham crackers and not share.

You’ve got that smile,That only heaven can make.I pray to God everyday,That you keep that smile.Yeah, you are my dream,There’s not a thing I won’t do.I’d give my life up for you,’Cause you are my...

I want to reconcile the violence in your heart.I want to recognize your beauty’s not just a mask.I want to exorcise the demons from your past.I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart.

Years and years ago, I read a great interview with Jam and Lewis, the R&B producers, in which they described what it was like to be members of Prince’s band. They’d sit down, and Prince...

Det var nästan som att upptäcka en författare man inte läst, fast man stöter i och för sig hela tiden på författare som man inte har läst medan det är mycket sällsynt, åtminstone i vuxen...

If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know.” Louis Armstrong

It’s Easy To Feel Like A Big Fish, When Your Pond is Just A Puddle!

But there was a discipline, it was just that we didn’t understand. We thought he was formless, but I think now he was tormented by order, what was outside it. He tore apart the plot...