A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.

The earth has music for those who listen.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

We're not trying to change the world; just music.