A fine work of art – music, dance, painting, story – has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.

Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such...

bitch power is the juice, the sweat, the blood that keeps pop music going. Rick James helped me understand the lesson of the eighth-grade dance: Bitch power rules the world. If the girls don’t like...

On first impressions, John seemed more cynical and brash than the others, Ringo the most endearing, Paul was cute, and George, with velvet brown eyes and dark chestnut hair, was the best-looking man I’d ever...

The only one who’s got enough of me to break my heart.

The air was warm and heavy as sprinkles began to fall from the clouds high above. The Triton glided through the waters and the whoosh of the ship combined with the steady beat of the...

If heartache was a physical pain I could face, I could faceBut your hurting me from inside of my headAnd I can’t take it, I can’t take itI’m going to lose my mind

Asleep by the SmithsVapour Trail by RideScarborough Fair by Simon & GarfunkelA Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol HarumDear Prudence by the BeatlesGypsy by Suzanne VegaNights in White Satin by the Moody BluesDaydream by Smashing...

I am most proud that I stayed true to the music of my soul.

The fashion look of teens and twentysomethings -once so cutting edge- is now, like most of the music played on the radio, a matter of routine. Safe, tired, everywhere.

We are not here to do what has already been done.

She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.

You’ll spend every Saturday night on the bathroom floor with no recollection of the night before You’re a train wreck and everything that’s in between Being alone doesn’t seem so bad to me

Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.

America: It’s like Britain, only with buttons.

La música […] fue una vía de escape. Todo lo demás estaba cambiando o llegaba a su fin, pero la música era un recurso vasto, infinito.

The smoke detectors began to ring; for they were battery-powered and thus still functioned, just as a record can still be played after the death of every member of the orchestra.

Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce...

It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food and drink, with scents, with the beauty of green plants, with decoration, music, sports, the...

When people would ask me what I’m addicted to, I always said ‘music.’ And while they’d laugh it off like it’s a cliché, I’m actually a complete shopaholic when it comes to records. I’d literally...

Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is...

Songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic… whatever the case, it wasn’t that I...

Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness. The significance of mathematics resides precisely in the fact that it is an...

The sound of life, Everyone has got their own song playing in the background of their life , some has melody and some has depressing music and some extra ordinary people are standing their choosing...

Stop saying drug use makes people lazy. Jimi Hendrix did a lot of drugs, even though he’s been dead for forty years, he’s still making new records. Suck on that, Partnership for a Drug-Free America!

She knows about the music stuff, but she doesn’t care. That’s why I didn’t tell her about my job at the studio. She doesn’t want make me want to be better, like you do. She...

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body’s breath, and the strings’ wails and moans are echoes of the body’s music. It is the body’s vibrations which...

Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year’s fragments into a ‘sextet for overlapping soloists’: piano, clarinet, ‘cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color....

And here’s to the blues, the real blues— where there’s a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.

Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable.

Music, my rampart and my only one.

Don’t be afraid to be weakDon’t be too proud to be strongJust look into your heart my friendThat will be the return to yourselfThe return to innocenceIf you want, then start to laughIf you must,...

Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends.

You know when I’m down to my socks it’s time for businessThat’s why they’re called business socksIt’s business, it’s business time

I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…

If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always...

I suppose it’s the name: there’s a deal in the name of a tune.

Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century.

True ‘we travel the world over and over to find the authentic-self, we forget that we carry it within. Simply Pause.

It’s just nice, I guess. Knowing that someone else can put into words what I feel. That there are people who have been through things worse than I have, and they come out on the...

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Can’t you see that it’s just raining?There ain’t no need to go outside.

Music is the love child birthed from the boundless freedom found in dreams and the rapturous opposition faced in life; for that, we should be so grateful for both the light and the dark.

Death is a force, not a man in a horse

If anybody can appreciate fine music, it’s me. I mean who else can hit multiple octaves with their armpits?

Without music life would B flat

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

You’re gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul