#music

"I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true"

"Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me.No hope, no harm; just another false alarm"

"You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty."

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."

"Our first show, 'A Little Nightmare Music,' encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music."

"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness."

"My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls."

"When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art."

"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."

"Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me. For example, if my kid said to me, 'I want to give it all up,' whatever it is that they're doing, 'and I want to take my saxophone and go out,' I would say, 'May God go with you. This is a great and noble thing that you're doing.'"

"I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side."

"I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers."

"I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you."

"Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost."

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

"None but ourselves can free our minds."

"I want the gift of a guitar—no strings attached. I want your love to also have no strings attached—and be just as musical."

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

"You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing."

"Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world."