Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Ludwig van Beethoven

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.
George Harrison

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.
Peter De Vries

I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.
Derek Jeter

I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.
Britney Spears

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
Marilyn vos Savant

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
Thomas Carlyle

Music is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is the strongest form of magic.
Marilyn Manson

The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
Neil Young

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.
Neil Young

I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.
Neil Young

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.
Neil Young

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.
Neil Young