Music

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

Even in high school, I went through a lot of relationship issues, and that's at the center of my music.

Music is the best way that I can communicate with other people.

Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

I've never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that's for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it's a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I'm driven by that. Everything I've done has felt very natural, and it's happened because it's happened.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

We're all music fans and we just love being in a band, and that's why we do it.

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about black music, about soul music.

I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.