Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Music the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
Music is essentially useless as is life.
Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
You just pick up a chord go twang and you're got music.
I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.
There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
When I was a teenager I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing photography and writing.
The world's a better place since I chose music.
But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity and that being able to join in musical activity along with dancing could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.
Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you unstoppable.
When music fails to agree to the ear to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses then it has missed the point.
There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.
Those who have virtue always in their mouths and neglect it in practice are like a harp which emits a sound pleasing to others while itself is insensible of the music.
Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world it is integral to harmony and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
On the other hand what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons you understand but the ghosts.
Music is about listening the more you play the more the magic spreads.
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.