Dance is the ritual of immortality

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

On the Rolling Stones – You will walk out of the Amphitheatre after watching the Stones perform and suddenly the Chicago stockyards smell clean and good by comparison.

Music blows lyrics up very quickly, and suddenly they become more than art. They become pompous and they become self-conscious … I firmly believe that lyrics have to breathe and give the audience’s ear a...

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.

I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.

Should I have taken him by the hand and led him over to the Zappa? No. I won’t spoon-feed the customers. If you don’t know your alphabet, you have no business leaving your house, let...

The difference between a hit and a flop is called audience ❤ –

Your Digital Native generation really has some issues.”»

I am an old man, and I here declare that I never knew them to be productive of any good in the worship of God, and have reason to believe that they are productive of...

We all have lips.” Perhaps that is what we all had in common: no one was allowed to be serious, except about the importance of music, the glory of faces seen in the crowd. We...

Treat a sick man with the medicine and a sad man with the music.

You’re the mad one,’ I said. ‘If you could see yourself, hear your own voice, your music – which of course you play for yourself – you wouldn’t see darkness, Nicki. You’d see an illumination...

In my imagination you’re waiting lying on your side with your hands between your thighs.

We all fall sometime, you’re not the first. I know it hurts. In the end, you’ll find what you deserve.

We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road,I guess that’s what they call character,I guess that’s just the way it goes,better to be dusty than polished,like some store window mannequin,why don’t...

He was waiting for me at the best table in the room, toying with a glass of white wine and listening to the pianist who was playing a piece by Granados with velvet fingers.

Frequent friction when love becomes political.

Repetition draws us into music, and repetition draws music into us.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

Le nace a uno cierta melodía, la canta uno silenciosamente, en el interior solamente; toda la naturaleza individual se posesiona de la tonada y se deja uno llevar por ella por su fuerza y emotividad,...

For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea

My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music.

The trouble with poetry is it’s often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.

I vacuumed my piano, hoping to soak up the last of the concertos. I should sell musical sponges, for the lover in the kitchen in all of us.

[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining to the harassed man that the phrase “too much Mozart”...

Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe.

A good country song takes a page out of someone’s life, and puts it into music.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

I’m a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration- joy and pain sit side by side. The blues started off in some field, some plantation, in some...

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.