#music

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."

"Passion is a deep love for sacred activity."

"I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them."

"When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart. When we think, a kind of music is played in our mind. In harmony, both create a beautiful symphony of life."

"...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church."

"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness."

"If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope."

"If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week."

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

"Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions."

"I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs."

"Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world."

"Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted."

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

"She was famous, and she was insane.Her voice soared out over the audience, holding them spellbound and enraptured, delivering their hopes and fears tangled in chords and rhythm. They called her an angel, her voice a gift.She was famous, and she was a liar."

"I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres."

"Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach."

"Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy"

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

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