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

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
Neil Young

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
Neil Young

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.
Bill Hicks

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
Bob Newhart

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.
Billie Holiday

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
Billie Holiday

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
Billie Holiday

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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