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I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
Sep 30, 2025
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC
Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.
I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!
I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope.
An instant family classic that is utterly unique but reminiscent of films like 'E.T.,' 'Sound of Music' and 'Life Is Beautiful.'
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.
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
Never say never - you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
Some people have lives; some people have music.
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
I have always followed my instincts when it comes to music and life in general. They were telling me very loudly that it was time for John D., Hallmark and I to get back together.
In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Where words leave off, music begins.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Music gives a soul to the universe.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Music can change the world.
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
If music be the food of love, play on.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.
There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Where words fail, music speaks.