Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there. Judith Viorst
Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love. Eminem
I need drama in my life to keep making music. Eminem
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. Eminem
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. Leonard Bernstein
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? Khalil Gibran
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. John Lennon
If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down. Eminem
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. Albert Schweitzer
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do. Jimi Hendrix
I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything. Eminem
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.' Barack Obama
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. Bob Dylan
Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing. Eminem