STAINSWith red clay between my toes,and the sun setting over my head,the ghost of my mother blows in,riding on a honeysuckle breeze, oh lord,riding on a honeysuckle breeze.Her teeth, the keys of a piano.I play...

Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and harmony are made, so that God is honored and praised but...

And a ride in a hearse tells us we’re all close to that final cruise . . . when the body dies and we move on. It’s just the body, man. It’s just the body....

We didn’t start the fireIt was always burningSince the world’s been turningWe didn’t start the fireNo we didn’t light itBut we tried to fight it

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

If you look in the mirror and don’t like what you see, you can find out first hand what it’s like to be me.

Music is not in the notes but in what is between them.

Brahms’ Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it’s probably because your heart is talking.

The Qu’ran is God’s song, not ours, not even Muhammad’s. To allow such a song to pass through one’s body, however imperfectly, is to discover that the instrument is transformed by the music.

I began to long, as I had before, for some special smell, some special music that would fill me, lift me up and carry me away, float me off the rocks of my body and...

I’ve been trying to start a garage band for over a decade now, but father won’t move his car.

The ultimate weapon is Lady Gaga’s music. Why kill the enemy when you can play her music and they’ll want to kill themselves?

I am tough for a reason and it is to fucking destroy the music. I dance hard.

Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe

Yet, for my part, I was never usually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary. I am glad to have drunk water so long, for the...

Their minds told them this life was not their own. This life was not the one designed for this body and soul. The truth of existence was a happiness separated from the easy happy life....

I want to drum up interest for instruments that are played by beating them with sticks.

Some people should have stopped singing in the 60s, even if they were born in the 80s.

I think a cool band name would be War Dwarf. Of course, I’m entirely too tall and peaceful to be a member. Not to mention nonmusical.

All the broken hearts in the world still beat

There’s 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter.

After that, I became kind of fascinated by her and by what I guessed was her ability to hear music in the silence. Back then, I’d wanted to be able to do that, too. So...

Never trust someone who can’t enjoy music […] you can guarantee that they’re only half alive.

I’m a little bit naked, but that’s okay.

When you walk,go different roads that take you nowhere,and see your world.

What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposeless or a purposeless...

Faith is why I’m here today and faith is why I made it through.

Music is the power of motivation, love it for a reason.

A middle-aged woman who looked like someone’s cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face… It didn’t add up. Suicide wasn’t invented for people like this. It was invented...

I am hated for loving.I am haunted for wanting.

Some of my favorite songs: ‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart’ by Neil Young; ‘Last Night I Dreamed That Somebody Loved Me’ by the Smiths; ‘Call Me’ by Aretha Franklin; ‘I Don’t Want to Talk...

I Don’t Waste My Time Doing Crosswords, As My Life Is The Only Puzzle I Care To Resolve!

That day and night, the bleeding and the screaming, had knocked something askew for Esme, like a picture swinging crooked on a wall. She loved the life she lived with her mother. It was beautiful....

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning … except its own.

So I’ll be bold, as well as strong, and use my head alongside my heart.

No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do

Every life has a soundtrack.There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent rubbing baby oil on my stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. There’s another that reminds me of...

Time goes by at the speed of lifeSlower than a slow danceon a hot summer nightFaster than the skin breakson the edge of a knifeAnd we just go on at the speed of life

Rock’n’roll is a teenage sport, meant to be played by teenagers of all ages–they could be 15, 25 or 35. It all boils down to whether they’ve got the love in their hearts, that beautiful...

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.

I turned to the clarinets. They were a resourceful lot.

Once you sit down and the concert starts, you’ll never know where the music will come from next.

If shame had a face I think itwould kind of look like mineIf it had a home would it be my eyesWould you believe me if I said I’m tired of thisWell here we go...

No one can sad listening to Frankie Valli.

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So...

I would often sit in the corner of the room wearing Dad’s massive headphones, carefully replaying the records time after time. It was something I did frequently throughout my childhood with music, comedy and film,...

I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the ’90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I...