Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing. – Layne Staley
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. – Andres Segovia
Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music. – Paul McCartney
Music is essentially useless, as is life. – George Santayana
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. – George Santayana
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. – Joseph Addison
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. – Joseph Addison
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. – Stendhal
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life. – Ludwig van Beethoven
Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation. – Ronnie James Dio
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself. – Billy Joel
What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings. – Marilyn Manson
Metal is still the biggest music now in America. – Sebastian Bach
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do. – Keith Richards
I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time. – David Bowie
Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. – Vladimir Nabokov
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. – Gustave Flaubert
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. – Noel Coward
Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony. – Cat Stevens
