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
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.
-Simon Cheshire
"Plastic Fantastic"
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
