Quotes on Music Is

Music is a weapon of the future / music is the weapon of the progressives / music is the weapon of the givers of life

We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone. Our music is our alchemy.

Music is structure out of Chaos

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Music is a spiritual thing, you don't play with music. If you play with music you will die young. You see, because when the higher forces give you the gift of music...musicians hip, it must be well used for the gift of humanity.

As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.

Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

The thing that hasn't changed, and I don't think will ever change, is that the operative word in music is "play." You have to have a playfulness about it. As the world shifts, it's starting to understand more and more that to have a playfulness about any and everything is actually the way of having a better life, or being more creative, or being more productive.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

Music is the weapon. Music is the weapon of the future.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.