I liked AC/DC,” Lee said. “If you were going to shoot someone, you’d really want to do it while you were listening to them.””What about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to...

The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no emptiness of sensation

The daily mindfulness, consistency, and discipline is ultimately more important than the amount of time. In other words, it’s more about quality than quantity. If you use 15 minutes effectively, you’ll accomplish more than you...

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

Will any of those men under you ever really understand all this? They’re professional cynics, and it’s too late for them. Why do you want to go back with them? So you can keep up...

Don’t believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies

Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place.

Well I’m finding it harderto be a gentleman every dayAll the manners that I’ve been taughthave slowly died awayBut if I held the door open for youIt wouldn’t make your day.

Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of the euphoric exclamations. Every record I put on was like a baptism.

Jazz is not just ‘Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.’ It’s a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study.

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.

And at 3am you sit near the window and wonder if there is magic… because all you need are some fairies to take your pain away and help you sleep… you take a book to...

The ancients wrote down the first scripture of choreography by observing in the night sky movements of the dancing stars.

Please don’t cry one tear for me, I’m not afraid of what I have to say.This is my one and only voice, so listen close… it’s only for today.

We can all make music individually. But we are smart enough to know that the music we make together is far better.

I was born to make mistakes, not to be perfect.

I look at him for a moment. Words are a weapon stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart. I come from a people...

Planning. Short-term memory. Attention. At first glance, these three frontal lobe functions can seem like diverse activities that just happen to be packed into the same brain region. But on closer inspection it turns out...

But if you close your eyes,does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?

hello there, the angel from my nightmare.the shadow in the backgroung of the mourge.the unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley.we could live like jack and sally if we want.

She’s no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It’s called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your lover, being broke, men called Daddy, women who dress like...

There must be some kind of way out of here,’ said the joker to the thief…

I won’t look back to regret yesterday, we’re not handed tomorrow so I’ll live for today

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.

Sometimes we focus on the lyrics too much and forget to dance to the music.

It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace–the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for...

Look, there is Vyvyan Ayrs!”How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn’t, the wolves...

I promised her that I would never kiss and tell, but I have to tell someone about my dreams and fairytales. So I’m telling you that I kissed her.

I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe–but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn’t be surprised if poetry–poetry...

The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: “Making music together is the best way...

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”, and I will say “watch me”.

I finally found him sitting on his balcony. He was leaning back against the wall with his eyes closed. Soft music played, and a cool ocean breeze blew back my hair as I stepped on...

La tournée terminée, Tom et Roger pensèrent qu’après le succès de I Shot The Sheriff, ce serait bien de descendre dans les Caraïbes pour continuer sur le thème du reggae. Ils organisèrent un voyage en...

The first step – especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money – the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the...

Sometimes I wish Jim Morrison were still alive, because I’d love to see a concert in which “The Doors” opened up for “The Cars.

I have witness the stars brighterthan a poet can create a simpleton world. Shall we write ‘until death do us part.

If he can’t sleep, how will he ever dream?

This was different. It had synths droning and sending saltwater waves under my feet. It had drumbeats bursting like fireworks, rumbling the furniture out of place, and then a crazy, irregular, disharmonious, spiral crescendo of...

We live in a generation of not being in love, and not being together. But we sure make it feel like we’re together, because we’re scared of seeing each other with somebody else.

She once told me of a night that fumed with escapes and was filled with bedsides reeking of ecstasy; she told me the stars cast not judgments, but blessings, knowing full well the disastrous outcomes...

Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music. Fascinating reading.

Two Straws and a Spoon,” about one man being cuckolded by a milkshake.

Because there’s beauty in the breakdown.

The world is a cancer eating itself away… I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph. When into the womb of time everything is again...

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama’s running so we all can fly.

Once she called to invite me to a concert of Liszt piano concertos. The soloist was a famous South American pianist. I cleared my schedule and went with her to the concert hall at Ueno...

We live in a world packed with desensitising forces, that strip the world of magic. The world is full of negativity, but we fight back with positivity. We’re inspired by oceans, forests, animals, Marx Brothers...

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