Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it time runs out.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity and here has its greatest effect on life an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Develop interest in life as you see it in people things literature music - the world is so rich simply throbbing with rich treasures beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
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.
Look when I started out mainstream culture was Sinatra Perry Como Andy Williams Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course there's no fitting into it now.
You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
Folk music is a bunch of fat people.
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
A musician must make music an artist must paint a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
Music makes me high on stage and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
My heart which is so full to overflowing has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
It is piracy not overt online music stores which is our main competitor.
Philosophy is the highest music.
The reflection of the world is blues that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.
I try to use my music to move these people to act.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.