"Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash."
Bo Diddley

"Its not the size of the ship, its the size of the waves."
Little Richard

"Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old."
Pink Floyd

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."
Frank Zappa

"A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky

"I'm growing older, but not up."
Jimmy Buffett

" Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
Janis Joplin

"Catch a wave and you're sitting on top of the world."
The Beach Boys

"All music is folk music.
I ain't never heard no horse sing a song."
Louis Armstrong

"Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married.
I'm not interested in being hip."
John Lennon

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
Victor Hugo

"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Aldous Huxley

"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman."
Ludwig Van Beethoven

"The notes I handle no better than many pianists.
But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides."
Artur Schnabel

"I don't know anything about music. In my line, you don't have to."
Elvis Presley

"If music be the food of love, play on."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Font size=3>"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
John Keats

"Nothing separates the generations more than music.
By the time a child is eight or nine,
he has developeda passion for his own music that is even stronger
than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes."
Bill Cosby

"Without music, life would be an error.
The German imagines even God singing songs."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone."
Janis Joplin

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Red Auerbach

"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."
Miles Davis

"It's OK to mess up. You should give yourself a break.
Billy Joel

"I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists
is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit.
I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off.
I reply, 'The Beatles did'".
Kurt Vonnegut

"You don't get to choose how you're doing to die, or when.
You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
Joan Baez

"Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what's not supposed to be there."
John Prine

" A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."
Leopole Stokowski