"Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young."

"By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with."

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."

"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."

"Why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?"

"...obviously one of the keys for us in music and video is to make sure we have an integrated and strong portable device ... [shrugs] business."

"And if you think you're alone. Put on my music. Because I'm going to be there for you."

"Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune."

"Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature."

"People probably heard a greater quantity of music, and a greater variety, on these devices than they would ever hear in person in their lifetimes."

"Western music in the Middle Ages was performed in these stone-walled gothic cathedrals, and in architecturally similar monasteries and cloisters."

"It was the best show I’d ever seen; it was so tight and choreographed that it seemed to be from another planet, a planet where everyone was incredible."

"Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel."

"Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music."

"If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week."

"Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires Sisyphean patience for its song, Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short and Art is long."

"I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws."

"Music fathoms the sky."

"I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour."

"I had - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas. So the government was financing dramatic groups and amateur dramatics and stuff like that."

"Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was the symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen."

"In her heart it didn't give her near the same feeling that music did. Nothing was really as good as music."

"Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen."

"Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about."