Quotes on Music

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.