“In memory everything seems to happen to music.”
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“Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.”
“Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.”
“Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.”
“For me, music and life are all about style.”
“If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.”
“Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts.”
“At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.”
“I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.”
“Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.”
“Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.”
“When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.”
“It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.”
“Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.”
“I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.”
“For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.”
“I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.”
“Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.”
“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”
“I see music as fluid architecture.”
“If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.”
“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”
“My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.”
“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”