#music

"This is the strangest life I have ever known."

"Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?"

"Thank God for books and music and things I can think about."

"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."

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."

"With my ninth mind I resurrect my firstand dance slow to the music of my soul made new."

"All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it."

"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."

"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats."

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

"When I hear Jazz, my first instinct is to lean over to the guy next to me and whisper, "Fourth floor, please."

"People haven't always been there for me but music always has."

"Music is as integral to me as my own DNA. My life has become a continual soundtrack, with music underscoring the most powerful and even the most banal moments of my life."

"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."

"Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through."

"I couldn't resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown.He's just not as tall, but I couldn't tell, it was dark and I was lying down."

"Where words leave off, music begins."

"Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business."

"So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God."

"The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them."