#music

"I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered."

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

"A radio in a song in an ice cream cone. Two licks for free, and the third is for sale. My favorite flavor tastes like a commercial, because it’s made with 100% natural advertisement."

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."

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

"Don't leave it all unsaid,somewhere in the wasteland of your head."

"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC"

"The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy."

"The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears."

"Eddie Money and Johnny Cash should have collaborated. I’d have paid good last name to see them in concert."

"I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it."

"Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing."

"With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note."

"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make."

"If music be the food of love, play on,Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die."

"When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can."

"The harmonica has musical wind, and is the breath of soul. It’s like a sad, lonely I love you lost in the breeze."

"Maybe you'll change Abandon all your wicked waysMake amends and start anew againMaybe you'll seeAll the wrongs you did to meAnd start all over, start all over again.Who am i kidding?Now, lets not get overzealous hereYoure always been a huge piece of shitIf i could kill you i wouldBut it's frowned upon in all fifty statesHaving said that, burn in Hell."

"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss."

"I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine."