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"Music is my religion"

"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it"

Rick Wright, Musician

"I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame"

Steven Adler, Musician

"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"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music"

David Byrne, Musician

"Music is the best way for me to say I love you"

Mireille Mathieu, Musician

"I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content"

Ken Burns, Director

"The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody"

Glenn Frey, Musician

"The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"I try to use my music to move these people to act"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"Music is a safe kind of high"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"In music the passions enjoy themselves"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"If music be the food of love, play on"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"My health is wonderful. I work out. I'm working. Playing music. I have a beautiful wife, a nice home, a nice car, I got money in the bank. I got three beautiful dogs that love me. Like I said, I'm blessed. I survived"

Steven Adler, Musician

"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life"

Berthold Auerbach, Author

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense"

Robert Frost, Poet

"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"I call architecture frozen music"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money"

Rick Wright, Musician

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

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"Where words fail, music speaks"

H. C. Andersen, Writer

"I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"I did not start IC and Inteam to have control over my music. I had control before and after"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

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