Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

I turned on VH1 this morning just to get a little warm-up before I came over here, and I think it's just terrific. There's so much great stuff: diverse and wonderful music, good performances, great looking girls, great videos, the whole thing.

Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.

You can never learn enough about music.

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

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

I look up to Tegan & Sara, obviously, Adele and Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks. All these artists are strong in their convictions, and they haven't changed who they are for the music business.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know people that have bunkers, go to the bunkers.

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

Musicians own music because music owns them.

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

I'm always just looking to get back to the joy of playing music, and keeping it simple, as much as I can.

Every once in a while, we can touch somebody's life in a way just by writing a melody or writing some music, which is always really special.

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

I was brought onboard to strengthen the bridge between Spotify and the music community.

I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet.

I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old Town School of Folk Music. I used to go to Pete Seeger concerts, and he would do songs like 'Ruben Ranzo' and talk about how the sailors sang songs to do their work - to raise the anchors, pull up the sails and that sort of thing.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

My father was a great admirer of music and the arts, so there was always a lot of culture in the house. As it happened, while my father was the ambassador in Portugal, the ambassador's residence had a piano, and so I started learning how to play it at the age of five.

Much of the music I remember from camp was unofficial: the songs a counselor would play for us on acoustic guitar or that an older camper would sing after telling us a tale of his hard-knock life. We couldn't get enough of 'One Tin Soldier' or 'Cat's in the Cradle.'

As regards my own 'philosophy,' I continue to be inspired by the music, liturgy and architectural tradition of the Anglican Church in which I was brought up. No one can fail to be uplifted by great cathedrals - such as that at Ely, near my home in Cambridge.

At the end of the day, I use music to be able to communicate to people.

I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos and the underlying structure that it's based on, the chord progression. That was pretty easy to do in the swing era, y'know, when jazz was, like, pop music, you know. It had made the charts and everything like that.

Cooking is exactly like making music.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

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

Music is my life. It is sacred.

Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.

Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the 70's to the 90's.

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

A scene gets cut a few frames here and there, but there's a cumulative effect to it, and then the music needs to be reworked. It's demanding, but when you see the improved cuts, it's always better.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

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

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

With Led Zeppelin, it has always been that mystique of how the music is done - how it works, why it works.

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

I have to go places beyond music.