“Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.”
“Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.”
“Don't play what's there, play what's not there.”
“Good music is very close to primitive language.”
“Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.”
“Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.”
“I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.”
“Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.”
“Without music, life is a journey through a desert.”
“Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.”
“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.”
“Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.”
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”
“Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.”
“Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.”
“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
“Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.”
“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.”
“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
“The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.”
“One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.”
“Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.”
“If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.”
“A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.”
“I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.”
“Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.”
“I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.”
“Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.”
“I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.”
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”