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 on music
Music is a safe kind of high. Jimi Hendrix on music
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 on music
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. Albert Schweitzer on music
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do. Jimi Hendrix on music
I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything. Eminem on music
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 on music
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 on music
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 on music
I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate. Eminem on music
Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. Henry Miller on music
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. Frank Zappa on music
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. Robert Frost on music
Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him. Tupac Shakur on music
I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable. Tupac Shakur on music
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. Bill Cosby on music
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. Albert Camus on music
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. Thomas Merton on music
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. Soren Kierkegaard on music