"Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music"

"Music is my religion"

"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are"

"Powerful indeed is the empire of habit"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary"

"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace"

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

"Music is the universal language of mankind"

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

"I've always been into melodies. That's what I love about music – a good melody that gives you goosebumps"