"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." - Decca Recording Company rejecting the Beatles (1962)
“When words fail, Music speaks.” - H.C. Anderson
"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." - Bob Marley
“Music is not a matter of life or death... It's much more important than that.” - Unknown
"Play the music, not the instrument." - Unknown
"I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve." - Xavier Cougat
“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.” - Mark Twain
“Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.” - Richard Strauss
"I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century to have made giant strides in reverse." - Bing Crosby
“Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, ‘Listen to me.’ Now it says, ‘Look at me.’” - Billy Joel
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side ..." - Hunter S. Thompson
"I don't know anything about music, In my line you don't have to." - Elvis Presley
"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." - Johann Sebastian Bach
"Music is love in search of a voice." - Leo Tolstoy