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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
E. W. Howe
There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise.
Terry Pratchett
Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
William Wordsworth
You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
Billy Corgan
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.
Arthur O'Shaunessey
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.
Brian Eno
I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don't think I'll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn't like my music - I'm not everyone's cup of tea.
Katherine Jenkins
You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.
Sid Vicious
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Marcus Aurelius
My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.
Paulina Rubio
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
Pope John Paul II
And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.
Miriam Makeba
The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.
Charlie Haden
When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.
Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Plutarch
I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
Taylor Swift
I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.
Joaquin Phoenix
That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.
Marc Jacobs
Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.
John Mayer
