We are all of us living in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
As long as there are kids who are pissed off and have no real way in venting out that anger, heavy metal will live on
Ozzy Osbourne
At night, as I tried to go to sleep, I listened to [...]
When the good times come around, they gallup in like wild horses. You just try to stay on them for as long as you can. And when they throw you off….you just wait in the shade until they come around again.
Jimmy Buffett
Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing [...]
You thought I was a little girl, you thought I was a little mouse, you thought you’d take me by surprise. Now I’m here burning down your house.
Garbage
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it’s total crap to pretend it’s not.
George Michael
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
George Santayana
Sometimes the lights all [...]
So I turned myself to face me, but I’ve never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker. I’m much too fast to take that test.
David Bowie
Its whats on the record not what labels on it. You know, thats like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard.
Elvis Costello
It is the [...]
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
W. H. Auden
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
Sir Thomas Beecham
Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority [...]
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
Music is the soul of language.
Max Heindel
Music should be your escape.
Missy Elliot
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou
Music washes away from the soul the dust [...]
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono
Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
Music happens to [...]
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
All music is beautiful.
Billy Strayhorn
Any good music must be an innovation.
Les Baxter
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard
Composers shouldn’t think too much – it interferes with their plagiarism.
Howard Dietz
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, [...]
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~Aldous Huxley
Music is love in search of a word. ~Sidney Lanier
It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible. ~Victor de LaPrade
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. [...]
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. ~Confucius
Rock music in its lyrics often talks ahead of the time about what’s going on in the country. ~Edmund G. Brown
Music can noble hints impart,
Engender fury, kindle love,
With unsuspected eloquence can move,
And manage all the man with secret art.
~Joseph Addison
My whole [...]