A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
-Tom Morello
Quotations
Music
Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.
-Lindsey Kelk
"I Heart New York"
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
