Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
-Tom Morello
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine