I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.

- Judy Collins

Even if you can't sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.

- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

Sing lustily and with good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half-dead, or half-asleep; but lift up your voice with strength.

- John Wesley

Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.

- Judy Collins

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

- Duke Ellington

The gods who have been appointed to be our companions in the dance, have given us the pleasurable sense of harmony and rhythm; and so they stir us to life, and we follow them, joining together in dances and songs.

- Plato

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

- Albert Schweitzer

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

- Maurice Ravel

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

- Fred Frith

I think that music has an endless life.

- Anne Dudley

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

- Baruch Spinoza

Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not.

- Judy Collins

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.

- Hunter S. Thompson

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

- Albert Schweitzer

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

- John Adams

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

- Albert Schweitzer

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

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

- Louis-Ferdinand Céline

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

- Albert Einstein