Music my rampart, and my only one.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
Herbert Spencer

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
Alvin Ailey

You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
Roy Lichtenstein

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
Carlos Santana

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
Carlos Santana

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
Ezra Pound

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
Ezra Pound

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
Barry White

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.
Sebastian Bach

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
Yoko Ono

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.
Yoko Ono

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
Yoko Ono

I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.
Julie Andrews

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
Barry White

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.
Barry White

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
Barry White

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.
James Baldwin

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
Joseph Addison

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Joseph Addison