The only film I ever made for money was something called 'Music From Another Room', which I really didn't like.

Obviously, I'm not a singer. I don't consider myself a singer.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.

What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?

Life's two most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.

Who hears music, feels his solitude Peopled at once.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.

Use your heart to love somebody. And If your heart is big enough, use your heart to love EVERYBODY

Music at its essence is what gives us memories.

It's up to to you to perfect that gift that you've been given. Put your spirit into that song. Focus on the words that you are singing. Get into the experience that you are singing about and sing your heart out.

Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do.

Music can measure how broad our horizons are. My mind wants to see to infinity.

There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.

I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

“One good thing about music—when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

“My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.”