The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so...

His music gave no lesser joy than a vacation. Creativity in his music and its success stood out as an example to all kinds of artists, in the lectures of business speakers, engineers, and to...

Jess Pepper’s review of the Avalon Strings:’In a land so very civilized and modern as ours, it is unpopular to suggest that the mystical isle of Avalon ever truly existed. But I believe I have...

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

A song rises up from the belly of my pastand rocks me in the bosom of buried memories.

It’s so frustrating that everybody rags on eighties music, when there’s a lot of terrific stuff out there,” he said. “There’s no irony to it. It’s not afraid to just be happy or enthusiastic or...

You hear lots of notes, don’t you? Some have a major sound. Some have a minor sound. But there’s not one blue note among all these black and white keys. The real blues, the soul...

The beauty of words will forever be stronger than the silence of tears.

In every heart there is a room,A sanctuary safe and strong,To heal the wounds from lovers past,Until a new one comes along

Definition of rock journalism: People who can’t write, doing interviews with people who can’t think, in order to prepare articles for people who can’t read.

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

Yet, happy are the pure of heart for they have known the music.

Music is the heart of life.” She speaks love; “without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

It was a full Spears album, apparently, and each song was as ridiculous as the one before. They were catchy, yes, but so was the plague.

Music and comedy are so linked. The rhythm of comedy is con­nected to the rhythm of music. They’re both about creating tension and knowing when to let it go. I’m always surprised when somebody funny...

Pianos, unlike people, sing when you give them your every growl. They know how to dive into the pit of your stomach and harmonize with your roars when you’ve split yourself open. And when they...

Now I think I understand how this world can overcome a man.

How can you understand the language of music, if you will not be an instrument?”—Zarost

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain’t nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight

…music is the key to life

The only truth is music.

If you schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret life–whether it’s writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It’s yours.

I sing karaoke like I drink coffee. If my words come out a bit gargled, relax, that’s precisely how Hootie and the Blowfish is supposed to sound.

I’m trying to be a better gangsta, so I’m learning how to play the ukulele. I’m also trying to figure out how to rap a romance novel, like The Notebook.

There is something intimate about playing a duet. It’s touching the soul of another person without ever touching the flesh.

My first wife said, ‘It’s either thatguitar or me,’ you know — and I giveyou three guesses which one went.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.

[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and...

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

Let them Teach,Let them learn,let them pray,for the world is theirs.

Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical?What if the ones inside can’t hear...

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then...

I see the world, it makes me puke,But then I look at you and know,that somewhere there’s a someone who can soothe me.

There’s a club, if you’d like to goYou could meet somebody who really loves you.’So you go, and you stand on your ownAnd you leave on your ownAnd you go home, and you cryAnd you...

permission” to be creative and to be a creator too.

Music; worship and prayer to God.

Music is the truth that everyone do listen, feels, believes and loves.

The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but...

Calm, gleam of your emerald kingdom raising my spirit beyond for perspective welcomes a smooth adventure with your golden waves of knowledge and wisdom nurturing the life within…never still, never quiet… Your voice calls out...

I closed my eyes during a flute solo, wishing I could wrap the silvery sound around me like armor.

His smile was like a Dylan album and a cup of coffee on a sunny afternoon

For those of you in the cheap seats I’d like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!

Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

There’s a story here.A catastrophic silence where our thoughts and feelings collide …Where your sweetness overrides my senses and our bodies move to the same tune.The same song.The same melody.The same stroke.The same rhythm.It’s our...

For in music there is no material to be deducted.

As I sit here on a snowy morning watching the flakes gently fall outside my window, I look at the 300-year-old building across the street and the beautifully carved angels on its facade. There was...

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.