Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

Without music to decorate it time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

This land is your land and this land is my land sure but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

When I die I want people to play my music go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

If people take anything from my music it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

Music is a safe kind of high.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed dumb and silent when all else sings together in unison?

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely more beautifully more devotedly than ever before.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

Music inflames temperament.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure making the music sound sweeter the wine taste richer the laughter ring louder because they are there.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

The man that hath no music in himself Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds is fit for treasons stratagems and spoils.

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears however measured or far away.

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics song and production are.

Music's not like becoming a doctor who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.