- “You are the books you read, the films you watch, the music you listen to, the people you meet, the dreams you have, and the conversations you engage in. You are what you take from these. You are the sound of the ocean, breath of the fresh air, the brightest light and the darkest corner.You are a collective of every experience you have had in your life. You are every single second of every day. So drown yourself in a sea of knowledge and existence. Let the words run through your veins and the colors fill your mind until there is nothing left to do but explode, There are no wrong answers . Inspiration is everything. Sit back, relax, and take it all in.” ― Jac Vanek
- Music is my higher power. Oliver James
- “With his Don Juan Mozart enters the little immortal circle of those whose names, whose works, time will not forget, because eternity remembers them. And though it is a matter of indifference, when one has found entrance there, whether one stands highest or lowest, because in a certain sense all stand equally high, since all stand infinitely high, and though it is childish to dispute over the first and the last place here, as it is when children quarrel about the order assigned to them in the church at confirmation, I am still too much of a child, or rather I am like a young girl in love with Mozart, and I must have him in first place, cost what it may. And I will appeal to the parish clerk and to the priest and to the dean and to the bishop and to the whole consistory, and I will implore and adjure them to hear my prayer, and I will invoke the whole congregation on this matter, and if they refuse to hear me, if they refuse to grant my childish wish, I excommunicate myself, and renounce all fellowship with their modes of thought; and I will form a sect which not only gives Mozart first place, but which absolutely refuses to recognize any artist other than Mozart; and I shall beg Mozart to forgive me, because his music did not inspire me to great deeds, but turned me into a fool, who lost through him the little reason I had, and spent most of my time in quiet sadness humming what I do not understand, haunting like a specter day and night what I am not permitted to enter. Immortal Mozart! Thou, to whom I owe everything; to whom I owe the loss of my reason, the wonder that caused my soul to tremble, the fear that gripped my inmost being; thou, to whom I owe it that I did not pass through life without having been stirred by something. Thou, to whom I offer thanks that I did not die without having loved, even though my love became unhappy. Is it strange then that I should be more concerned for Mozart’s glorification than for the happiest moment of my life, more jealous for his immortality than for my own existence? Aye, if he were taken away, if his name were erased from the memory of men, then would the last pillar be overthrown, which for me has kept everything from being hurled together into boundless chaos, into fearful nothingness.” ― Kierkegaard
- “I’ve always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.” ― John Barrowman
- “The world will be a misery without music.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Nowadays, people no longer know Beethoven’s Ninth from concerts, but form the for lines of the ‘Ode to Joy’ that they hear every day in the ad for Bella Perfume.” ― Milan Kundera
- “The world needs poetry now more than ever. It’s the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.” ― Lana Del Rey
- “The smoke detectors began to ring; for they were battery-powered and thus still functioned, just as a record can still be played after the death of every member of the orchestra.” ― William T. Vollmann, You Bright and Risen Angels
- “We start our lives with blues . . . with music. It’s our first language. It’s the rhythm of the womb. It’s your mama’s heartbeat inside your head.” ― David Mutti Clark, Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues
- “The perfect orchestration of the symphony of life is one of the Creator’s greatest and most beautiful miracles.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when he looks back, with the impatience of reason, on a music stronger than death.” ― George Steiner, Errata: An Examined Life
- Music is… a higher revelation than all wisdom & philosophy. Ludwig van Beethoven
- “Those around me persist in not understanding that I have never been able to live in a real world of people and things. And that is why I have this irrefutable need to escape and become involved in adventures which seem inexplicable because they involve a man no one recognizes. And perhaps that is what is best in me! Besides, an artist by definition is a man accustomed to dreams and who lives among phantoms. . . . How could it be expected that this same person would be able to follow in his daily life the strict observance of traditions— laws and other barriers erected by a hypocritical and cowardly world. (Letter from Claude Debussy to Jacques Durand)” ― Eric Frederick Jensen, Debussy
- “I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.” ― E.L. Doctorow
- Music is a safe kind of high. Jimi Hendrix
- “Life is misery without music.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.” ― Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
- “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.” ― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
- “When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time. ” ― Lady Gaga
- Music can change the world. Ludwig van Beethoven
- “Inhale, exhaleOn a trail thru treesSo scenic, scenery seamlessSeems as if I’m dreaming this sequenceSun seeping between the leavesReflecting off the stream Clean water runningSo serene, setting stunningBirds hummingSound of the wind Guitar like strummingProfound peace withinNature’s music My favorite playlistListening, witnessing Something mosaic” ― Andrew Edward Lucier, Awakenigma Allegory Anomalous
- “Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know, it doesn’t seem fair that I’m living for something I can’t even define, but there you are, right there, in the meantime.” ― Ani DiFranco, Ani Difranco: The Complete Lyrics
- “You want to evaluate musical art on its own terms, first. It is only when you have a solid grasp of that, that you can start to speculate.” ― Leticia Supple, Music Journalism 101
- “The chanting went on, the musicians giving in to the rhythm of their own being, finding healing in touching that rhythm, and healing in chanting about death, the only real god they knew.” ― Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn
- “You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.” ― Kelly White
- “When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” ― HENRY DAVID THOREAU
- “Some people have lives; some people have music.” ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
- “A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement” ― Jess C Scott
- “This is the strangest life I have ever known.” ― Jim Morrison
- “Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there are those… whose existence is dance,” ― Shah Asad Rizvi