A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You’ve got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with ‘Got To Get You Off My Mind’, but then...

Hold on to your friends.Resist – or move onBe mad, be rashSmoke and explodeSell all of your clothesJust bear in mind:There just might come a timeWhen you need some friends

Music lifted our spirit.

And I understood why he didn’t need friends or to be accepted at our shitty racist high school, because he had his music, and that was so much better than anything we had to offer.

Many roads to take some to joy some to heart ache

Music is the strongest form of magic.

Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.

We are stardustBillion-year old carbonAnd we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden

Words suck. I mean, every thing has been said. I can’t remember the last real interesting conversation I’ve had in a long time. Words aren’t as important as the energy derived from music, especially live.

if the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i’ve believed all my life-then what good is this music going to prove to be? what does...

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn’t.

I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn’t have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn’t exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly...

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.

The only dreams that matter are the ones you have when you’re awake.

Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?I didn’t think it polite to listen, sir.

It’s like this when you fall hard for a musician. It’s a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the notes and this is a form of...

Take the time to make some sense for what you wanna say,And cast your words away upon the waves.Sail them home with acquiesce on a ship of hope today,And as they land upon the shore,Tell...

The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde.

We couldn’t believe how exciting it was to be together, a pair of young Americruisers on a roll. We’d lived for just twenty-five years; we weren’t planning to die for fifty more. We danced and...

Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.

We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts. I’m standin’ there on a balcony in summer air.

Some songs are never just ordinary songs, they become the memories you collect in your life.

Butterflies, butterfliesThey were meant to flyYou and i, you and iWe were colours in the sky

I woke this morning with tears poured like rain To realize alot in the world is in vein My wish to all is peace love and light To bring all together and negativity take flight....

Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

Andy Dufresne: ‘That’s the beauty of music. They can’t get that from you…haven’t you ever felt that way about music?’Red: ‘I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn’t...

If you’ve lost your faith in love and music then the end won’t be long.

Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free.

You really fucked me up this time for good, even though you didn’t mean to

There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

Let’s unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words

Know I don’t hate youDon’t wanna fight youKnow I’ll always love youBut right now I just don’t like youCause you took this too far

For a brief moment I felt I was the older, the more mature.”A gift of life,” I responded, “if not to say, a gift of God, such as music, should not have the mocking charge...

Singing about being rescued will never get old. Never.

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

Creativity is the catalyst to the future.

….”the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a distant piano over and over again, melting in the sun...

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Jesus take the wheel

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.