Entertainment came out of this thing called a television and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

When I grew up what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems seeing a painting listening to some music some opera which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

I write the music produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel it needs to be hybridised.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

There's no religion but sex and music.

Music is my life it is a reflection of what I go through.

After all in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.

People who make music together cannot be enemies at least while the music lasts.

In essence String Theory describes space and time matter and energy gravity and light indeed all of God's creation... as music.

Nature's music is never over her silences are pauses not conclusions.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

For whatever reason not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And believe me it is a gift.

In America life is introverted self-absorbed - and so is their music.

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.