Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and r….

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful..

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing..

I do all the work so it's only right that I should get the most money. Plus I am the most handsome..

[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music..

I too once belived in the heavier gauge string as a superior tone source. However, thanks to the graciousness of B.B. King I learned that a lighter-g….

Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless….

I usually think in terms of music.

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah.

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal..

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac..

Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started a….

I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me ….

I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always pre….

As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it. The world is full of amazing guitar….

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life..

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live..

Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was..

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us..

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to e….

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music..