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Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
Charlie Byrd on music

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
Gary Wright on music

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.
Tom Wopat on music

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau on music

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein on music

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
Bob Marley on music

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Ronald Reagan on music

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Marcus Aurelius on music

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare on music

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
Bob Marley on music

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde on music

Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell on music

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 on music

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 on music

I need drama in my life to keep making music.
Eminem on music

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 on music

Music inflames temperament.
Jim Morrison on music

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
Eminem on music

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Leonard Bernstein on music

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 on music