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

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
Jimi Hendrix

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

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.
Jimi Hendrix

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
Michael Jackson

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
Bob Dylan

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Bob Dylan

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
Hunter S. Thompson

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Robert Frost

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow

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

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato

Philosophy is the highest music.
Plato

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
Plato

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.
Jim Morrison

Music inflames temperament.
Jim Morrison

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Stephen Leacock

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Martin Luther