I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I’m going to be immoderate–and volatile–I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.

And I remember when I met him, it was so clear that he was the only one for me. We both knew it, right away. And as the years went on, things got more difficult...

Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

The man who has many answersis often foundin the theaters of informationwhere he offers, graciously,his deep findings.While the man who has only questions,to comfort himself, makes music.

Like almost all of Beefheart’s recorded work, it was not even “ahead” of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic...

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

Have you ever listened to a song from a long time ago; from your past; a song that was filled with so many memories tied to it, that you felt it so deeply- that it...

Your iPod is whispering in your ear. It was keeping you company, but now it’s like a good friend turned bad […] It is turning your life into a dark, looping rock opera.

I knew it was coming. I knew they didn’t have the nerve.Three days in and they’ve got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only...

Songs have taught me more about life than school ever has and how to follow my ambitions no matter what they are and how to live my life no matter the trade-off.

Our musicians in residence carry this belief into the classroom. They don’t think of children’s self-esteem as so fragile that it will be shattered by the suggestion that the child guessed wrong or jumped to...

I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by...

You can’t be like pop stars, but you can be part of their story. You can be their fan.

Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic.

There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.

Life goes on, brah!

A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.

To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts–such is the duty of the artist.

Tell me what you listen to, and I’ll tell you who you are.

This ain’t the heartbreak hotel even though I know it well.Those no shows should you tell in the way you hold yourself.Don’t you fret should you get another cancellation, give me a chance and I’ll...

I relinquished myself to existence pure and simple, thinking absolutely nothing—as if my mind were merely an echo chamber for the music, as if it contained only ether or at most a vaguely pleasant odor...

Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could...

Maybe you’ll change Abandon all your wicked waysMake amends and start anew againMaybe you’ll seeAll the wrongs you did to meAnd start all over, start all over again.Who am i kidding?Now, lets not get overzealous...

Music fills the infinite between two souls

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.