People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Where words leave off, music begins.
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
The only truth is music.
Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.
Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy