If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
Quotations
Music
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
