Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city breathing; but here it is the city singing. Listen, then, to this chorus of...

You take a deep breath and you walk through the doors. It’s the morning of your very first day. You say hi to your friends you ain’t seen in a while, try and stay out...

No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.

Man, didn’t anybody ever tell you that art is propaganda? It doesn’t matter whether you think it should be or it shouldn’t be, it just is, and motherfucker, like or not, you’re sitting on a...

Montesquieu wrote: “I have never known any distress that an hour of reading did not relieve.” If one substituted the word music for reading, the exact same dictum applied to me.

The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert’s seventh symphony. And I’ve rigged it up so...

Rap is supposed to motivate, humours, address societal issues & personal feelings, and also liberate me through art, not insult our women.

Life is one grand sweet song so start the music

Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.

I’m sorry for breaking down when I should’ve been stitching myself back up

That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.

Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of senselessness. I am tired of the music that my feelings sing, the dream...

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.

Listening over and over to the voices through a family of instruments allowed us to recognize and appreciate the dignity and uniqueness of each living thing in the meadow and forest.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.

Music connects us to beautiful feelings of love, fullness, wholeness and unity

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

sometimes music isn’t just a bunch of sounds and lyrics, sometimes it’s more than that: a time machine…

I’ve found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.

Music is much like fucking, but some composers can’t climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won’t.

With my guitar, I could write my own stories, my own poems, and my own destiny. No one could take away the feelings, the emotions or the truth of my notes. They could hide secrets...

There’s something lyrical about an eternal truth. It’s a graceful riff. A free-flowing melody. Light and airy, it floats all around you. And when it lands on your ears, when you hear it for the...

We simply can’t feel fulfilled by love we pay for.

So I would choose to be with you,That’s if the choice were mine to make,But you can make decisions too,And you can have this heart to break

Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.

Those guys who want to have the Mohawk…which, to me, is the new business casual.

The hurt is the place where the music enters you.

So I forced myself to step out of my comfort zone and go out and connect with people. I realised that no one knew me here. I could become whoever I wanted to be for...

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has a history that is more than a history of its...

I was hoping we could just listen to Jimmy Eat World and forget we ever grew up.

Eddie Money and Johnny Cash should have collaborated. I’d have paid good last name to see them in concert.

Musicians have always had a better understanding of love than the rest of us. Over the years they have told us that love: is like a rock, is here to stay, is all you need,...

You know, just because you think bubblegum pop on the radio represents all that is wrong with society, that doesn’t mean there’s not someone out there who needs that shitty pop song. Maybe that shitty...

We stood there for a minute or two, with John swaying gently against my arm. ‘I’m feeling better,’ he announced. Then he looked up at the stars. ‘Wow..’ he intoned. ‘Look at that! Isn’t that...

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

Im not going to change my ways, just to please you or appease you, inside a crowd five billion proud willing to punch it out, right, wrong, weak strong, ashes to ashes all fall down.

If love played an instrument, I’ll bet it would be the piano. 88 keys, double infinity, and the ability to chop down trees with a sharpened mustache.

Stop talking to me!” An I love you disguised as “Stairway to Heaven” isn’t more romantic. Not unless you’re Helen Keller and I’m a slinky.

Yeah, you’re a regular Mozart…well, except for the whole music thing.

Music eliminates my gravity. When I’m singing, I’m a ravenous pterodactyl. I’m alive and free and hungry, and I know who I am. But the flood is coming; it’s weighing me down, making me prisoner...

Cold,cold water,surrounds me now,and all I’ve got is your hand.

The music world is where child prodigies go to die.

There’s always that song that brings you back to the past. That makes you pause in the middle of what you’re doing just so you could hear it clearly. The words bringing you back to...

I’m telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

Change the world so that nothing else is changed.

The world is teeming; anything can happen.