Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. – Henry Ward Beecher

I like having my hair and face done, but Im 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. – Adele

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. – Plato