- “You can’t make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn’t like it. Life isn’t perfect.” ― Ann Marie Frohoff
- “Music speaks magnificent melodies.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all. Josh Homme
- “Music shouldn’t be just a tune, it should be a touch.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
- “You’re not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why….this is why I like you.” ― Morrissey
- “It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace–the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.” ― Catherine Drinker Bowen, Friends and Fiddlers: Memoirs
- “The Day is DoneThe day is done, and the darknessFalls from the wings of Night,As a feather is wafted downwardFrom an eagle in his flight.I see the lights of the villageGleam through the rain and the mist,And a feeling of sadness comes o’er meThat my soul cannot resist:A feeling of sadness and longing,That is not akin to pain,And resembles sorrow onlyAs the mist resembles the rain.Come, read to me some poem,Some simple and heartfelt lay,That shall soothe this restless feeling,And banish the thoughts of day.Not from the grand old masters,Not from the bards sublime,Whose distant footsteps echoThrough the corridors of Time.For, like strains of martial music,Their mighty thoughts suggestLife’s endless toil and endeavor;And to-night I long for rest.Read from some humbler poet,Whose songs gushed from his heart,As showers from the clouds of summer,Or tears from the eyelids start;Who, through long days of labor,And nights devoid of ease,Still heard in his soul the musicOf wonderful melodies.Such songs have power to quietThe restless pulse of care,And come like the benedictionThat follows after prayer.Then read from the treasured volumeThe poem of thy choice,And lend to the rhyme of the poetThe beauty of thy voice.And the night shall be filled with music,And the cares, that infest the day,Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,And as silently steal away.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems
- “Có một thi sĩ làm thơ hô hào những nhà sáng tác, những ca sĩ từ bỏ lối sáng tác và ca hát đau thương đứt ruột. Ông ta viết những câu này, tôi còn nhớ:Đừng kể nữa những mảnh tình tan tác, Hãy đứng lên, nhạc sĩ, với tôi đi!Tôi ghét anh ưa giọng hát sầu bi,Và tung mãi những tâm hồn thường trụy lạc.Hãy đứng dậy! Vứt chiếc cầm áo não!Tôi cần nghe những khúc nhạc rất hùng,Thét ngựa lòng phi mãi chẳng chồn chân,Sáng như gươm tuốt, mạnh như luồng bão.Ôi nhạc sĩ! Thật anh người thậm tệ!Quan hoài chi những khúc hát mê ly,Những câu ca không đẹp lại không thiCủa kỹ nữ vọc cuộc đời ê trệ?Hãy cung kính nhượng những người tuổi tác,Những bản đàn nhịp hát thiếu tinh thần.Hãy ra xem sõng vỗ với mây vần,Và sáng chể cho tôi vài điệu khác.Nếu chúng ta cứ hát những bài khóc gió than mây và cứ nghe những bài độc huyền thì có thể ‘vận cái rủi’ vào số mạng của mình, tưới tẩm những hạt giống đau buồn, điều đó không tốt.” ― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Thả một bè lau
- Music should be your escape. Missy Elliott
- “A lot of people pray for power, house, financial breakthrough, wealth etc. But only few ask God for wisdom. There are so many great power pack man and women of God who lack wisdom.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.” ― Brenda Peterson
- “Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of senselessness. I am tired of the music that my feelings sing, the dream music.” ― Ross David Burke, When the Music’s Over: My Journey into Schizophrenia
- “They all believed in him because of the authenticity of his musical talent and his faith in it.” ― Amit Kalantri, One Bucket of Tears
- “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.” ― Deepak Chopra
- “If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don’t plagiarize or take ‘on loan’. There’s always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who’ll trip you up and laugh when you fall.” ― Morrissey
- “I want to reconcile the violence in your heart.I want to recognize your beauty’s not just a mask.I want to exorcise the demons from your past.I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart.” ― Matthew Bellamy
- “I was only beginning to enter into the infinite subtlety of Gregorian chant. It was – and remains – the only public prayer I have ever been able to engage in without feeling like a phony and a jackass. But then, one day in 1965 or so, it was simply abolished. With a stroke of his pen, Pope John XXIII – who had such good ideas about other things – declared that liturgy would henceforth be in the vernacular language of the people. That was, effectively, the end of Latin chant.Then all those monks and nuns who had devoted hours and hours a day began to sicken and fall into depressions, but nobody noticed for a long time. Maybe, as I can well believe, the music toned up their systems in some mysterious way. Or perhaps chant really was a language that God understood. Faced with numerous liturgical scholas shrieking away in the new vernacular hymns, Divinity may have covered its ears and withdrawn, leaving the monks to pine. We parish musicians, illiterate in anything written after the 13th century, stumbled around trying to score liturgies for guitar and bongo drums, trying to make sense of texts like “Eat his body! Drink his blood!”It wasn’t because the music got so bad that I quit going to Mass, but it certainly was the beginning of my doubts about papal infallibility.” ― Mary Rose O’Reilley, The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
- “It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.” ― Nick Hornby
- “Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.” ― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
- Close your eyes. Listen. Nothing’s missing. Maxime Lagacé
- “Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.” ― Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion
- Where words fail, music speaks. Hans Christian Andersen
- A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good. Colbie Caillat
- “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
- “There have been times I’ve felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.” ― Criss Jami, Healology
- “The present world is good, but broken and in any case incomplete; art of all kinds enables us to understand that paradox in its many dimensions. But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to look at, graceful to hold—and yet if you’d never heard one in the hands of a musician, you wouldn’t believe the new dimensions of beauty yet to be revealed.” ― N.T. Wright, Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
- Music is the universal language of mankind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “The money you are looking for is not in any country, phd or your designer outlook, it is in wisdom. Solomon never prayed for wealth but he asked for wisdom.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “The Qu’ran is God’s song, not ours, not even Muhammad’s. To allow such a song to pass through one’s body, however imperfectly, is to discover that the instrument is transformed by the music.” ― George Dardess, Meeting Islam: A Guide for Christians
- “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