“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.”
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“Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.”
“Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.”
“Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.”
“The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.”
“I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.”
“I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.”
“Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.”
“The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.”
“Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.”
“Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.”
“Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.”
“There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.”
“When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.”
“Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.”
“But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.”
“The world's a better place since I chose music.”
“Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.”
“Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.”
“When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.”
“There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.”
“I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.”
“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
“Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.”