Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

Dance with the Devil

Writing, music, sculpting, painting, and prayer! These are the three things that are most closely related! Writers, musicians, sculptors, painters, and the faithful are the ones who make things out of nothing. Everybody else, they...

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed; it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated...

… And these childrenthat you spit onas they try to change their worldsare immune to your consultations.They’re quite awareof what they’re going through…

That´s the problem with planning a late night supper after the opera, not only does the hero or the heroine die singing, but you end up famished after the last notes of the finale.

Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state

….Charles laughingly observed,’Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It’s just a question of whether you’re talkin’ about a woman or God.

I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy...

real world”. Refuse normalcy. Beauty is everywhere, love is endless, and joy bleeds from our everyday existence. Embrace it. I love all of you, all my friends, family, and community. I am ceaselessly grateful from...

I used to date the lead singer of The Cranberries, but she cheated on me. Turns out she had some turkey on the side.

Kalkbrenner has made me an offer; that I should study with him for three years, and he will make something really – really out of me. I answered that I know how much I lack;...

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin’ to anesthetize the way that you feel.

In elementary school, in my lunchbox, I used to pack a saxophone. I could have been a chef, a culinary artist, and all that jazz.

We are a singularity that makes music out of noise because we must hurry. We make a harvest of loneliness and desiring in the blank wasteland of the cosmos.

Life will hack off your head and shit down your neck every chance it gets. I’ve found that consuming drugs and booze, listening to music and always having an excuse in the best way to...

ARTThe world is full of confusion and contradiction. We cannot expect to do anything that is absolutely right. We can only measure rightness by the truth within ourselves. And our own truth will never be...

Yeah, I enjoy musical chairs. My furniture is deaf, so it gets rather interesting.

When the fire of love is quenched, hatred creeps in through the window of neglect and loneliness.

You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay ’emBut you won’t take the sting out these words before I say ’em

She was famous, and she was insane.Her voice soared out over the audience, holding them spellbound and enraptured, delivering their hopes and fears tangled in chords and rhythm. They called her an angel, her voice...

But I look into her eyes and she looks into my eyes and we recognize it—the excitement of being here, the excitement of being now. And maybe I’m realizing what a part of it she...

I’m only a girl with metaphysical soles.

For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

How something can be so soft and so loud at the same time. It’s almost like it isn’t there at all, isn’t it?” The song ends. And in this moment, as the sun sets outside,...

We’re not gonna make it out of this alive. You know that, right?

Don’t give up. It’s just the weight of the world.

Set your dreams where nobody hides, give your tears to the tide…

Disappointment came to me,and booted me,and bruised and hurt me,but that’s how people grow up.

You don’t like me, but you love me; either way, you’re wrong.

The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This...

To Me, The Best Part Of Success, Is The Journey!

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Sean at sixteen thought ‘Rexecutioner’s Dream’ was the greatest thing he’d ever heard, something so strange and different it seemed like a message from another realm. It had cover art, but the art was glued...

Please, touch me, I pray.

As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.

The combination of mental and physical practice leads to greater performance improvement than does physical practice alone, a phenomenon for which our findings provide a physiological explanation. – Alvaro Pascual-Leone

My first kiss. A new kind of kiss, like the new kind of music still playing, softly, in the distance – wild and arrhythmic, desperate. Passionate.

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

Music is poetry in motion.

The world of technology has made it easier for people to get in touch with their modern muses regardless of the genres that they are trying to utilize and even if they create a new...

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.

To put an arrogant ‘famous’ singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.

only one who obeys can truly command.” When the artist is immersed in a services,giving himself up over and over again, another paradox occurs:He is being seen by all others as a master.

The sound of laughter has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the universe.

He stilled my room, for sure.