I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite ….

Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution..

I don't know much about contemporary music. I do have an iPod but I listen to a lot of old blues. I listen to John Lee Hooker and Elmore James. I ….

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me..

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the….

Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear..

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk..

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity..

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music..

I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune..

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!.

Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she work….

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life..

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure..

Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory a….

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it..

Music. – There is something very wonderful in music. Words are wonderful enough: but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as w….

One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that yo….

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true.

All music is important if it comes from the heart..

The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course..