They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.

Never Let The Roosters Wake You!

You can’t take the sky from me.

Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

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.

Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Music That Brings, The Meaning Of our Life.Music That Shows, The Light From Our Soul.When This Music Touch Our Hear, We call it TRANCE.When This Music Control Our Emotion We call it “THE SENSATION OF...

Yeah – Sure I rememberMatter of fact it was just last SeptemberShe still calls it the fall to rememberLittle Heather when it all came togetherYou remember the first time you met her?She cried when it...

I delight in music and calm down, but there’s no one here, I’m just alone and my sound which I love.

Dance is the ritual of immortality

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

On the Rolling Stones – You will walk out of the Amphitheatre after watching the Stones perform and suddenly the Chicago stockyards smell clean and good by comparison.

Music blows lyrics up very quickly, and suddenly they become more than art. They become pompous and they become self-conscious … I firmly believe that lyrics have to breathe and give the audience’s ear a...

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.

I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.

Should I have taken him by the hand and led him over to the Zappa? No. I won’t spoon-feed the customers. If you don’t know your alphabet, you have no business leaving your house, let...

The difference between a hit and a flop is called audience ❤ –

Your Digital Native generation really has some issues.”»

I am an old man, and I here declare that I never knew them to be productive of any good in the worship of God, and have reason to believe that they are productive of...

We all have lips.” Perhaps that is what we all had in common: no one was allowed to be serious, except about the importance of music, the glory of faces seen in the crowd. We...

Treat a sick man with the medicine and a sad man with the music.

You’re the mad one,’ I said. ‘If you could see yourself, hear your own voice, your music – which of course you play for yourself – you wouldn’t see darkness, Nicki. You’d see an illumination...

In my imagination you’re waiting lying on your side with your hands between your thighs.

We all fall sometime, you’re not the first. I know it hurts. In the end, you’ll find what you deserve.

We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road,I guess that’s what they call character,I guess that’s just the way it goes,better to be dusty than polished,like some store window mannequin,why don’t...

He was waiting for me at the best table in the room, toying with a glass of white wine and listening to the pianist who was playing a piece by Granados with velvet fingers.

Frequent friction when love becomes political.

Repetition draws us into music, and repetition draws music into us.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

Le nace a uno cierta melodía, la canta uno silenciosamente, en el interior solamente; toda la naturaleza individual se posesiona de la tonada y se deja uno llevar por ella por su fuerza y emotividad,...

For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea

My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music.