Music is love in search of a word.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

I see music as fluid architecture.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.

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.

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Music should be your escape.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

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.

All music is beautiful.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Every song is like a painting.

The world's most famous and popular language is music.

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

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

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

You are the music while the music lasts.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

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

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

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

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

Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

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

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

When words leave off, music begins.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

Any good music must be an innovation.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

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

Music is the strongest form of magic.

Music is my religion.

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.