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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden on music

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Billy Wilder on music

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
Karl Lagerfeld on music

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden on music

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
Van Morrison on music

Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier on music

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
Dizzy Gillespie on music

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
Ace Frehley on music

Any good music must be an innovation.
Les Baxter on music

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
Edgar Winter on music

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
Isaac Stern on music

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
Ray Charles on music

Music should be your escape.
Missy Elliot on music

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.
Michelle Branch on music

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Jacques Barzun on music

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
Yancy Butler on music

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
Howard Dietz on music

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
Herb Alpert on music

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning on music

Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?
Miranda Lambert on music