Don’t be afraid, just play the music.

He was making music – Howells, Finzi, Holst – so you could see the sounds in the serried air.Serried. Then just as suddenly empty when his sound-proof right hand closed off the notes.

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant...

I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

I didn’t do music to live; I lived so that I could do music.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

Some guy said to me: Don’t you think you’re too old to sing rock n’ roll?I said: You’d better check with Mick Jagger.

The Doctrine is the Ecstasy

I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, ‘You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take...

When I’m on stage, I’m trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don’t go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

Le Requiem de Mozart. Un souffle de l’au-delà y plane. Comment croire, après une pareille audition, que l’univers n’ait aucun sens? Il faut qu’il en ait un. Que tant de sublime se résolve dans le...

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors…Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat…What then was music created for?Was it to drown...

I like great music, but who doesn’t? Oh yeah, deaf people.

To save the environment—and my childhood memories, I merged a gas station pump with a jukebox. Look, my car now runs on 80s music!

The movies, I thought, have got the soundtrack to war all wrong. War isn’t rock ‘n’ roll. It’s got nothing to do with Jimi Hendrix or Richard Wagner. War is nursery rhymes and early Madonna...

If I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution.

Listening to silence, our intuition and music helps us to find answers.

Amy turned to Nellie. “Can you create a diversion to draw the clerk outside?”The au pair was wary. “What kind of diversion?””You could pretend to be lost,” Dan proposed. “The guy comes out to give...

Accusing us of being a gimmick is a bit like accusing Jesus Christ of having ‘a bit of a messiah complex’. True, maybe, but when faced with the undeniable genius of what we put out,...

So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN.

Bring wings to the weak and bring grace to the strongMay all evil stumble as it flies in the worldAll the tribes comes and the mighty will crumbleWe must brave this night and have faith...

Poetry is the language of the soul;Poetic Prose, the language of my heart.Each line must flow as in a song,and strike a chord that rings forever.To me, words are music!

Music, brings the soul alive.Music promotes wellness and sound mind.

The best songs are written through our anger. Even though feelings change over time, our lyrics will always remain inside the song as a way of reminding us how far and how much stronger we’ve...

You’re not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why….this is why I like you.

I don’t mind if you forget me.Having learned my lesson,I never left an impression on anyone.

Life is a pigsty.

You Can’t Replace A Star with A Lightbulb

And Esme remembered in a rush–the wolfsong, the haunting, lyrical spirals of it in the dawn quiet and the feeling of euphoria that had attended it. Even in recollection the howling uplifted her like the...

Dying is the fastest route to fame for an aspiring rock star. The dead man’s melodies become profound, acquiring deep mystery and rising into a realm beyond the reach of human criticism. In the stopping...

And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita . . .” What other immortality will anyone share?

Would I ever find the perfect note to fill the music sheet that I had?

We needed germans in Paris to hear Wagner.

There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children...

..my music isn’t just music- its medicine.

If you wish to make good art, then you must believe you already do. Otherwise, you will never be good enough.

Don’t worry about the future, sooner or later it’s the past. If they say the feeling’s gone then it’s time to take it back.

There are many ties that bind, and as many walls that divide. Music and madness. Love and unending time. Race and war. Strum weaves together each element into a larger human tapestry of light and...

The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies.-Norah, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist

Starting right now, attempt to live as if you have no regrets.

I like music,’ she said slowly, ‘because when I hear it, I…I lose myself within myself if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once.

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the secret places in my heart. I played it carefully, strumming it slow and low into the...

Everything is music for the born musician.

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It’s fragile up there.

Robert Kapilow is a born teacher, an enthusiast who can think on his feet, a 110 percent believer in the project at hand … It’s a cheering thought that this kind of missionary enterprise did...

Where were you? When everything was falling apart. All my days staying by the telephone. You never rang and all I needed was a call.

It’s harder to make the glass than break the glass.