Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
Barack Obama

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Ronald Reagan

If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Kahlil Gibran

Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
John Lennon

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Bill Cosby

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau

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

Music is a safe kind of high.
Jimi Hendrix

Music is my religion.
Jimi Hendrix

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix

I try to use my music to move these people to act.
Jimi Hendrix

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
Jimi Hendrix