Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

Music is always a commentary on society.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.