No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
Bryan Ferry

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
Andres Segovia

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
Karl Lagerfeld

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Frank Zappa

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier

When words leave off, music begins.
Heinrich Heine

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning

Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Laurie Anderson

You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
Bryan Ferry

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
Van Morrison