I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from….
School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues..
I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular….
None but ourselves can free our minds..
All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it..
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music..
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend..
When Ray Flacke came out, it was like 'What in the heck is this?' ... there's a guy who had that Tele players attitude, and he plugged straight into ….
I don't like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned before hand ... you've got to give the band something to use its imagina….
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudibl….
In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of..
A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime..
The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music..
I've been told that my music tells a story, but I don't know the story..
Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life..
Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voi….
When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music….
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist..
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is..
Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits..