The trouble with poetry is it’s often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.

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.

Mr. Mancini had a singular talent for making me uncomfortable. He forced me to consider things I’d rather not think about – the sex of my guitar, for instance. If I honestly wanted to put...

Take’th my temple and cut it into little stars, placed carefully to the face of heaven and the world will shine.

Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way

Without music, life would be a mistake.

She started intensely praying and Bible reading and religious music. She was commanded in an extraordinary and compelling way to cut off her own legs, arms and head and give them to God.

Sad, slow music in the small hours of the morning isn’t just sad and slow music. It’s a narration. And through the myriad of morning dew, we are the twinkling stars that fade with the...

I had a dream about you. You’d never been in an elevator before, and I’d never been in love. I said I could help you, and you said you could help me. I got excited...

I make music like I make love—in a group. OK, so I’m not in a band, and I sing alone in the shower.

When there is a crack in trust in a relationship, then the bond of the union is at risk

I play chicken with the train

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture, Italian literature and art. Musically he studied the scores of the great masters. At the end of the...

AC/DC is very easy to miao along to!

A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a message outside and a message inside, and...

The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God….Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention...

We are all valuable. Humanity needs our individual services.

When I smoke pot, it makes me want to hide under the bed with a box of graham crackers and not share.

You’ve got that smile,That only heaven can make.I pray to God everyday,That you keep that smile.Yeah, you are my dream,There’s not a thing I won’t do.I’d give my life up for you,’Cause you are my...

I want to reconcile the violence in your heart.I want to recognize your beauty’s not just a mask.I want to exorcise the demons from your past.I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart.

Years and years ago, I read a great interview with Jam and Lewis, the R&B producers, in which they described what it was like to be members of Prince’s band. They’d sit down, and Prince...

Det var nästan som att upptäcka en författare man inte läst, fast man stöter i och för sig hela tiden på författare som man inte har läst medan det är mycket sällsynt, åtminstone i vuxen...

If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know.” Louis Armstrong

It’s Easy To Feel Like A Big Fish, When Your Pond is Just A Puddle!

But there was a discipline, it was just that we didn’t understand. We thought he was formless, but I think now he was tormented by order, what was outside it. He tore apart the plot...

Virgin suicideWhat was that she cried?No use in stayin’On this holocaust rideShe gave me her cherryShe’s my virgin suicide

My ambition was to live like music.

I loved the feeling of finally falling in love to someone who would love me back.

A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it’s memory.

Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.

You need songs that make you feel. Some make you string, some make you weak. Some build determination, some tear you apart. But you need all of those…Run through the pain.

The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it had to do with things I felt while I played....

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.

[S]he leans into this guy and rocks her head like I’m making this music for her, when if I could, I would take it all away and give her as much silence as she’s given...

I am more than what they say I am.

Love songs are nothing without exaggeration.

Music has become more pervasive and portable than ever. But it feels less previous in the bargain. I don’t want to confuse artistic and commercial value, but it’s just a fact that some kid who...

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it’s true.

Shall I tell you what rock and roll is, Johnno, from someone who doesn’t perform, but observes? It’s restless and rude. It’s defiant and daring. It’s a fist shaken at age. It’s a voice that...

You know, people can’t fall in love with me just because I’m good at what I do.

If you’re not creating, you’re disintegrating.

…sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same…

So no one told your life wasGonna be this wayYour job’s a jokey brokeYour love life’s D.O.A.It’s like you’re always stuckIn second gearWhen it hasn’t been your dayYour week, your monthOr even your year but,I’ll...

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