Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year. – Bill Monroe
My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears. – Paul Simon
To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people. – Joey Ramone
I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry. – Amy Winehouse
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. – John James Audubon
I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial. – Ani DiFranco
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending. – Igor Stravinsky
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. – Claude Debussy
There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books. – Maurice Sendak
I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of. – Gabriel Marcel
It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry. – Martina McBride
My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio. – Jessica Sanchez
Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping. – Nat King Cole
Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts. – Rebecca West
If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues. – Aulis Sallinen
Country music has always sort of been country music. – Miranda Lambert
Color is a plastic means of creating intervals… color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony. – Hans Hofmann
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else. – John Philip Sousa
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time. – Carlos Santana
