Where words fail, music speaks.
When words leave off, music begins.
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
You are the music while the music lasts.
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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.
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
You can’t stay the same. If you’re a musician and a singer, you have to change, that’s the way it works.
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Music should be your escape.
I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.
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.
I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Music is my religion.
