Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
Eddie Izzard

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Soren Kierkegaard

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
William Blake

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
Dolly Parton

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
Henny Youngman

I call architecture frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Plutarch

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
John Keats

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren G. Bennis

A "scream" is always just that - a noise and not music.
Carl Jung

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
Mary Kay Ash

Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.
Tupac Shakur

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.
Tupac Shakur

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Albert Camus

Music fills the infinite between two souls.
Rabindranath Tagore