Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics..

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime..

There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way to communicate emotions..

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune..

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish..

If you're going to make a mistake, make it loud so everybody else sounds wrong..

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions..

I don't pull, I just receive..

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician..

If you love music hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It p….

I don't write music for sissy ears..

Honest songs aren`t written for money..

To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully unders….

He not busy being born is busy dying..

... Aqualung was a difficult and very tense album to record... while I was playing the solo, Jimmy Page walked into the control room and started wavi….

Everything-everything-was communicated through the sound of the music. There were no other signals of any kind ever-no count-offs, head nods, spoken ….

Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician can use to cr….

Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living..

I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's becau….

If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable..

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen..