6,548 Quotes About Music

Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.

Music and books stir up emotions. They make feelings rise and clatter and wreck, and sometimes that's dangerous. But music can make you rise up and clatter and destroy when you need to, too.

A song should stand on its own and on what a singer does with it. It shouldn't need a lot of extra help to be good.

Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.

I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.

Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me.No hope, no harm; just another false alarm

I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.

Wrapped up in the music, I threw myself into an overstuffed chair and let my legs dangle over the arm, the position in which Nature intended music to be listened to, and for the first time in days I felt the muscles in my neck relaxing.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.